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  • Polymers offer sustainable, renewable materials with desirable properties like flexibility and biocompatibility.
  • Microfluidic technology advances enable polymeric matrix fabrication for tissue engineering scaffolds and controlled fluid manipulation.

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  • To review the use of polymers in microfluidic chip fabrication.
  • To highlight successful applications of polymers in microfluidic devices.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing literature on polymers in microfluidics.
  • Discussion of polymer applications in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and sensing.

Main Results:

  • Polymers are successfully utilized in microfluidic devices for generating uniform particles (drug vehicles, artificial cells).
  • Polymers serve as bioinks for 3D printing and functionalize sensing surfaces in microfluidic devices.

Conclusions:

  • The combination of polymers and microfluidics offers a low-cost, reproducible, and scalable approach.
  • This synergy promises a significant future for manufacturing biomimetic scaffolds for tissue engineering.