AIP Launches Biomicrofluidics - A New Interdisciplinary, Open Access Journal

["Christine Orr" <CORR@aip.org>]

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AIP Launches Biomicrofluidics -
A New Interdisciplinary, Open Access Journal

Melville, NY, November 9, 2006 - The American Institute of 
Physics (AIP) announced today that it has launched a new online 
journal, Biomicrofluidics (http://bmf.aip.org), which provides a 
novel forum for researchers from diverse fields, including 
engineering, physics, materials science, chemistry, and biology. 
Biomicrofluidics is an open access journal that distributes 
articles immediately to all scientists and engineers worldwide 
with no access charge.

As an electronic-only journal with rapid publication time, 
Biomicrofluidics is responsive to the fast-paced developments 
occurring in this field. The journal primarily focuses on 
original research articles, augmenting these with special 
sections and issues that help elucidate and define specific 
challenges unique to the field. Authors are encouraged to submit 
manuscripts to Biomicrofluidics at http://bmf.peerx-press.org.

The journal is edited by Dr. Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Professor of 
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center 
for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics at the University of 
Notre Dame. Dr. Chang has done extensive work on biological 
applications of microfluidics and nanotechnology, and on 
pattern-formation dynamics driven by hydrodynamic and 
electrochemical, biological, thermal, and reaction-diffusion 
instabilities.

"With rapid turnaround and wide circulation, we hope to promote 
interaction among the large but scattered microfluidic research 
communities across the globe," said Hsueh-Chia Chang, Editor of 
Biomicrofluidics. "It is our hope that Biomicrofluidics will 
serve this growing community by offering a common link and a 
communication conduit among the various scientific and 
engineering disciplines that participate in this exciting new 
field."

Organized into four issues per year, Biomicrofluidics will 
publish each article online in final citable form as soon as it 
is available. The journal will cover topics such as DNA and 
molecular manipulation, microfluidics and nanofluidics, wetting 
and nano-rheology, drop and digitated platform, electrokinetics 
and magneto-hydrodynamics, pathogen and molecular concentration, 
and separation and sorting devices.

The American Institute of Physics is a not-for-profit corporation 
with a mission to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics 
and related fields of science and engineering and its 
applications to human welfare. Publishing and publishing services 
are part of that mission. Today, in addition to publishing 
magazines and journals, AIP provides composition, printing, 
fulfillment, marketing, and other services to science and 
engineering publishers. AIP also fulfills its mandate by 
operating Scitation, the online home of more than 150 leading 
journals published by 20 science and engineering societies.

For further information, please contact:

Christine Orr
Marketing Manager
American Institute of Physics
Phone: +1 516-576-2484
Fax: +1 516-576-2374
Email: corr@aip.org