Chips & Tips

Chips & Tips is a unique and regularly updated forum for scientists in the miniaturisation field. Chips & Tips is an online resource hosted by the Journal Lab on a Chip. Chips & Tips aims to provide a place where ideas and solutions can be exchanged on common practical problems encountered in the lab, which are seldom reported in the literature.

Additional recommended knowledge

Recognize and detect the effects of electrostatic charges on your balance

What is the Correct Way to Check Repeatability in Balances?

Correct Test Weight Handling Guide: 12 Practical Tips

Chips & Tips was launched in 2006 and is moderated by David Beebe of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Glenn Walker of North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Article format

Chips & Tips pages are brief practical tips for the miniaturisation community. Pictures, videos and schematics are encouraged.

Audience/readership

Industrial and academic sectors, including: all areas of chemistry; biology; pharmaceuticals; medicine; analytical science; synthesis; biotechnology; BioMEMS; physics; material science; bioengineering and electronics.