Editing Lab-on-a-chip (section)

== Advantages ==
LOCs may provide advantages, which are specific to their application. Typical advantages<ref name=":0" /> are:
* low fluid volumes consumption (less waste, lower reagents costs and less required sample volumes for diagnostics)
* faster analysis and response times due to short diffusion distances, fast heating, high surface to volume ratios, small heat capacities.
* better process control because of a faster response of the system (e.g. thermal control for exothermic chemical reactions)
* compactness of the systems due to integration of much functionality and small volumes
* massive parallelization due to compactness, which allows high-throughput analysis
* lower fabrication costs, allowing cost-effective disposable chips, fabricated in mass production<ref name="researchgate.net">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1063/1.4821315 | volume=7 | title=Manufacturing and wetting low-cost microfluidic cell separation devices | year=2013 | journal=Biomicrofluidics | page=056501 | author=Pawell Ryan S | issue=5 | pmid=24404077 | pmc=3785532}}</ref>
* part quality may be verified automatically<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1007/s10404-014-1464-1 | volume=18 | issue=4 | title=Automating microfluidic part verification | journal=Microfluidics and Nanofluidics | pages=657–665|year = 2015|last1 = Pawell|first1 = Ryan S.| last2=Taylor | first2=Robert A. | last3=Morris | first3=Kevin V. | last4=Barber | first4=Tracie J. | s2cid=96793921 }}</ref>
* safer platform for chemical, radioactive or biological studies because of integration of functionality, smaller fluid volumes and stored energies