MicroTech Lab at MicroTAS 2026: advancing microfluidics through collaborative research

MicroTech Lab – CATMECH, UPC-BarcelonaTech, participated in MicroTAS 2026 in Granada, sharing research spanning environmental analysis, biosensing, and microfluidic design.

Our researchers contributed to four posters exploring:

🔹 Microplastic analysis — microfluidic platforms for size- and density-based pretreatment of microplastics.

🔹 Salivary cortisol sensing — a microfluidic platform integrating molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) electrochemical sensing for repeated daily testing.

🔹 Blood cell filtration — a tunable fibrin hydrogel matrix for deformability-based erythrocyte filtration.

🔹 Bioinspired microfluidics — capillary-driven flow through wood-inspired hierarchical interconnected parallel microchannels.

Jasmina Casals-Terré also chaired the session “Emerging Biointerfaces and Sensing Technologies,” contributing to the scientific exchange at the conference.

A heartfelt thank you to all CATMECH researchers involved in these contributions, and to our co-authors and partner institutions. Your dedication, creativity, and teamwork make this research possible. Congratulations to everyone who helped develop, present, and share these results!

Thank you also to conference chairs Lourdes Basabe Desmonts and Fernando Benito-López, the organizing team, and everyone who visited our posters for an inspiring week of discussions and new connections.