I. Barbulovic-Nad, H. Yang, M. Abdelgawad, and A. R. Wheeler, Exchangeable Sheets Pre-Loaded With Reagent Depots of Digital Microfluidics , United States patent # US8,187,864B2.
N. Mousa, M. J. Jebrail, M. Abdelgawad, R. F. Casper, and A. R. Wheeler, Method of Estrogen Extraction From Small Volumes Using Digital Microfluidics, United States patent # US 8,202,736 B2.
M. Abdelgawad, M. W. L. Watson, and A. R. Wheeler, A Digital-to-Channel Interface for In-Line Sample Processing and Chemical Separations, United States Patent # US9,039,973B2..
Liu, J., D.G. Pyne, M. Abdelgawad, and Y. Sun, Appendix C: Automated Vitrification of Mammalian Embryos on a Digital Microfluidic Device, in Cryopreservation of Mammalian Gametes and Embryos, Methods in Molecular Biology, Z.P. Nagy, A.C. Varghese, and A. Agarwal, Editors. 2017, Humana press (By Springer): New York, NY, USA. p. 309-316.
Yasmeen T. Mostafa, Mohamed F. El-Dosoky, Mohamed Abdelgawad, and Othman Hassan, Numerical investigation of a hybrid double layer microchannel heat sink with jet impingement, International Journal of Thermofluids, Volume 20, pp. 100465, 2023.
Malik Al-Lababidi and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Minimum movable droplet volume in digital microfluidics depends on the grounding scheme in addition to electrode size, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 355, pp. 114299, 2023.
T. M. El-sherry, M. A. Abdel-Ghani, H. K. Abdel Hafez, and M. Abdelgawad, Rheotaxis of sperm in fertile and infertile men, Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, vol. 69, n. 1, pp. 57-63, 2023.
I. Abu Dagga and M. Abdelgawad, Numerical modeling of sequential segmentation for enhancement of mixing inside microchannels, International Journal of Thermofluids, vol. 16, p. 100207, 2022.
S. Al-Mofty, M. Elsayed, H. Ali, O. Ahmed, A. Altayyeb, A. Wahby, M. Abdelgawad and N. Mousa, A microfluidic platform for dissociating clinical scale tissue samples into single cells, accepted in Biomedical Microdevices, manuscript #BMMD-D-20-00122R2, 2021.
M. Abdelkarim, N.H. Abd Ellah, M. Elsabahy, M. Abdelgawad, and S.A. Abouelmagd, Microchannel geometry vs flow parameters for controlling nanoprecipitation of polymeric nanoparticles, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, vol. 611, article # 125774, 2021.
M. Abdelgawad, Digital Microfluidics: Automating Microscale Liquid Handling, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, vol. 14, n. 3, pp. 6-23, 2020.
Sofela, S., S. Sahloul, C. Stubbs, A. Orozaliev, F.S. Refai, A.M. Esmaeel, H. Fahs, M. Abdelgawad, K. Gunsalus, and Y.-A. Song, Phenotyping of Thrashing Forces Exerted by Partially Immobilized C. elegans using Elastomeric Micropillar Arrays, Lab on a Chip, vol. 19, pp. 3685–3696, 2019.
A. Abualsayed, S. Abouelmagd, and M. Abdelgawad, Miniaturized Preparation of Polymeric Nanoparticles Using Droplet Manipulation on Open Surfaces, Micro and Nano Letters, vol. 14, n. 13, pp. 1312 - 1316, 2019.
A. Altayyeb, Y. Sun, and M. Abdelgawad, Effect of Joule heating and temperature-dependent zeta potential on Electroosmotic flow measurements in calorimetric flow sensors, Micro and Nano Letters, vol. 14, n. 9, pp. 1007-1012, 2019.
A. Altayyeb, E. Othman, M. Khashbah, A. Esmaeel, M. El-Mokhtar, C. Lambalk, V. Mijatovic, and M. Abdelgawad, Characterization of Mechanical Signature of Eutopic Endometrial Stromal Cells of Endometriosis Patients, Reproductive Sciences, vol. 27, n.1, pp. 364-374, 2020.
A. M. Esmaeel, T. El-Melegy, and M. Abdelgawad, Multi-Purpose Machine Vision Platform for Different Microfluidics Applications, Biomedical Microdevices, vol. 21, n. 68, 2019.
T. M. El-sherry, M. A. Abdel-Ghani, N. S. Abou-Khalil, M. Elsayed, and M. Abdelgawad, Effect of pH on Rheotaxis of Bull Sperm Using Microfluidics, Reproduction in Domestic Animals, vol. 52, n. 5, pp. 781-790, 2017.
M. Elsayed, T. M. Elsherry, and M. Abdelgawad, Development of Computer Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA) Plugin for analyzing sperm motion in microfluidic environments using Image-J, vol. 84, n. 8, pp. 1367-1377, 2015.
Hassan A, Abdellah, Hany A. Mohamed, and M. Abdelgawad, Repulsion-Based Model for Contact Angle Saturationin Electrowetting, Biomicrofluidics,vol. 9, pp. 014115, 2015.
T. M. Elsherry, M. Elsayed, H.K. Abdelhafez, and M. Abdelgawad, Characterization of Rheotaxis of Bull Sperm Using Microfluidics, Integrative Biology, DOI: 10.1039/C4IB00196F, 2014.
D.G. Pyne, J. Liu, M. Abdelgawad, and Y. Sun, Digital microfluidic processing of mammalian embryos for vitrification, PLoS ONE, vol. 9, n. 9, pp. e108128, 2014.
D. G. Pyne, W. M. Salman, M. Abdelgawad, and Y. Sun, Partially filled electrodes for digital microfluidic devices, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 103, n. 2, pp. 024103, 2013. ,
Bassam Alfeeli, Ma’moun Al-Rawashdeh, Ali Bumajdad, Haider Al Lawati, Mohamed Abdelgawad, Zouhair M. Baccar, Issam Ben Salem, and Faysal Benaskar, A review of nanotechnology development in the Arab World, Nanotechnology Reviews, vol. 2, n. 3, pp. 359–377, 2013.
J. Chen, M. Abdelgawad, L. Yu, N. Shakiba, W.Y. Chien, Z. Lu, W. B. Geddie, M. A.S. Jewett, and Y. Sun, Electrodeformation for Single Cell Mechanical Characterization, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 21, pp. 054012, 2011.
M. Abdelgawad, C. Wu, W. Y. Chien, and Y. Sun, A Fast and Simple Method to Fabricate Circular Microchannels in Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), Lab on a Chip, vol. 11, pp. 545-551, 2011.
M. Moscovici, W. Y. Chien, M. Abdelgawad, and Yu Sun, Electrical power free, low dead volume, pressure-driven pumping for microfluidic applications, Biomicrofluidics, vol. 4, pp. 046501, 2010.
N. A. Mousa, M. J. Jebrail, H. Yang, M. Abdelgawad, P. Metalnikov, J. Chen, A. R. Wheeler, and R. F. Casper, Droplet-Scale Estrogen Assays in Breast Tissue, Blood, and Serum, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 1, n. 1, pp. 1ra2, 2009.
M. Abdelgawad, P. Park, and A. R. Wheeler, Optimization of Device Geometry in Single-Plate Digital Microfluidics, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, pp. 094506, 2009.
M. Abdelgawad, M. W. L. Watson, and A. R. Wheeler, Hybrid Microfluidics: A Digital-to-Channel Interface for In-Line Sample Processing and Chemical Separations, Lab on a Chip, vol. 9, n. 8, pp. 1046-1051, 2009.
H. Yang, V. N. Luk, M. Abelgawad, I. Barbulovic-Nad, A. R. Wheeler, A World-to-Chip Interface for Digital Microfluidics, Analytical Chemistry, vol. 81, n. 3, pp. 1061-1067, 2009.
M. Abdelgawad and A. R. Wheeler, The Digital Revolution: A New Paradigm of Microfluidics, Advanced Materials, vol. 21, pp. 920-925, 2009.
M. Abdelgawad, M.W.L. Watson, E.K.W. Young, J. Mudrik, M.D. Ungrin, and A. R. Wheeler, Soft-lithography: Masters on Demand, Lab on a Chip, vol. 8, pp. 1379 – 1385, 2008.
M. Abdelgawad, S. Freire, H. Yang, and A. R. Wheeler, All-Terrain Droplet Actuation, Lab on Chip, vol. 8, pp. 672-677, 2008.
M. Abdelgawad and A. R. Wheeler, Low-Cost, Rapid-Prototyping of Digital Microfluidics Devices, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 4, n. 4, pp. 349-355, 2008.
M. Abdelgawad and A. R. Wheeler, Rapid Prototyping in Copper Substrates for Digital Microfluidics, Advanced Materials, vol. 19, 133-137, 2007.
M.W.L. Watson, M. Abdelgawad, G. Ye, N. Yonson, J. Trottier, and A. R. Wheeler, Micro-Contact Printing-Based Fabrication of Digital Microfluidic Devices, Analytical Chemistry, vol. 78, n. 22, pp. 7877-7885, 2006.
M. Abdelgawad, I. Hassan, N. Esmail, and P. Phutthavong, Numerical Investigation of Multistage Viscous Micropump Configurations, Journal of Fluids Engineering, vol. 127, n. 4, pp. 734-742, 2005.
M. Abdelgawad, I. Hassan, and N. Esmail, Transient Behavior of the Viscous Micropump, Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, vol. 8, n. 4, pp. 361-381, 2004.
I. Hassan, P. Phutthavong, and M. Abdelgawad, Microchannel Heat Sinks: An Overview of The State-of-The-Art, Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, vol. 8, n.3, pp. 183 – 205, 2004.
Conference Papers
Mohammed E. Elgack, Omar Ghannam and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Numerical Characterization of Compliance of Thick PDMS Microchannels, The 27th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2023), Katowice, Poland, 15-19 October, 2023.
Malik Al-Lababidi and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Limitations of the Non-floating Actuation Scheme in Digital Microfluidic Devices, The 6th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS 2023), Abu Dhabi, 9-13 October, 2023.
Mohammed E. Elgack, Omar Ghannam and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Numerical Characterization of Compliance of Thick PDMS Microchannels, The 6th International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS 2023), Abu Dhabi, 9-13 October, 2023
Ahmed Azmeer, Ibraheem Kanan, Ghaleb Husseini and Mohamed Abdelgawad, A low-cost platform with finger-operated-pumping for microfluidic preparation of nanoparticles, The 26th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2022), Hangzhou, China, 23-27 October, 2022.
Mohamed Agam, Vinod Paul, Mohamed Abdelgawad and Ghaleb Husseini, Targeted Liposomes Production in a Microfluidic Chip, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine & Engineering (IEEE-NANOMED 2021), Virtual, 14-17 November, 2021.
Malik Al-Lababidi and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Minimum Actuatable Droplet Volume In Single-Plate Digital Microfluidics Devices With All-Grounded Electrodes, The 25th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2021), Palm Springs, California, 10-14 October, 2021.
Ibragim Abu Dagga and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Numerical Modeling of Sequential Segmentation for Enhancement of Micromixing, The 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2020), Online, 4-9 October, 2020.
Ahmad Altayyeb, Essam Othman, Maha Khashbah, Abdelhay Esmaeel, Mohamed El-Mokhtar, Cornelis Lambalk, Velja Mijatovic, and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Performance of using deformability of endometrial cells as a diagnostic test for endometriosis, The 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2019), Basel, Switzerland, 27-31 October, 2019.
Alsaeed Abualsayed, Sara Abouelmagd, and M. Abdelgawad, Nanoparticle synthesis using digital microfluidics, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineering and Molecular Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-14 April, 2019.
Alsaeed Abualsayed and M. Abdelgawad, Effect of Waveform of the Actuation Signal on Droplet Speed in Digital Microfluidic Devices, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineering and Molecular Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-14 April, 2019.
Ahmed Darwish and M. Abdelgawad, Numerical simulation of photothermally induced Marangoni flow around a microbubble, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineering and Molecular Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-14 April, 2019.
Mahmoud Abdelkarim, Noura H. Abd Ellah, Mahmoud Elsabahy, Sara A. Abouelmagd, and Mohamed Abdelgawad, Optimization of Preparation of Polymeric Nanoparticles using Microfluidics, The 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2018), Kaohsiung, Taiwan 11-15 November, 2018.
Ahmad Altayyeb, Maha Khashbah, Abdelhady Esmaeel, Mohamed El-Mokhtar, Abdelbadei Sharkawy, Mohamed Abdelgawad, and Essam Othman, Mechanical Characterization Of Endometrial Cells As A Non-Surgical Diagnostic Test For Endometriosis, accepted in The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2017), to be held in Savannah, Georgia, USA, 22-26 October, 2017.
A.M. Esmaeel, A.B. Sharkawy, T. ElMelegy and M. Abdelgawad, Real-time open source machine vision software for closed loop control of flow in microfluidics devices, The 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2016, Dublin, Ireland , 9-13 October, 2016.
Saif Al-Mofty, Nagwa El-Badri, Ahmad Altayyeb, Omnia Omar, Mohamed Elsayed, Ahmed Wahbi, Hassan Ali, Mohamed Abdelgawad, and Noha Mousa, One stop lab on chip platform for tissue processing and cell sample preparation, the 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2016, Dublin, Ireland , 9-13 October, 2016.
Alsaeed Abualsayed, Khaled Shabaan, Ali AboEl-Lail, and Mohamed Abdelgawad, A 50$ complete digital microfluidics device and actuation setup, the 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (microTAS 2016, Dublin, Ireland , 9-13 October, 2016.
W. M. Salman, H. A. Ali, M. S. Abdelsalam, M. F. F. Eldosoky, and M. Abdelgawad, Interfacial electrical shear stresses induce electrohydrodynamic flows inside droplets actuated by electrowetting, accepted in the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Houston Texas, 13-19 Nov. 2015.
M. B. Effat, M. S. Abdelkareem, O. Hassan, and M. Abdelgawad, Numerical investigations of the effect of flow arrangement and number of layers on the performance of multi-layer microchannel heat sinks, accepted in the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Houston Texas, 13-19 Nov. 2015.
M. Elsayed, T. M. Elsherry, and M. Abdelgawad, Development of Computer Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA) Plugin for analyzing sperm in microfluidic environments using Image, The 7th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC 2014), Cairo, Egypt, 11-13 December, 2014.
T. M. Elsherry, M. Elsayed, H.K. Abdelhafez, and M. Abdelgawad, Characterization of Rheotaxis of Bull Sperm Using Microfluidics, The 7th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC 2014), Cairo, Egypt, 11-13 December, 2014.
Omnia Ahmed, Hassan Abdellah, Noha Mousa, Mohamed El-Sayed, Mohamed Abdelgawad, and Nagwa El-Badri, Tissue Dissociation Miniaturized Platform for Uterine Stem Cell Isolation and Culture, The 7th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC 2014), Cairo, Egypt, 11-13 December, 2014.
A.M. Esmaeel, A.B. Sharkawy, T. Elmelegy and M. Abdelgawad, Development of a Simple, Robust and Real-Time Image Processing Algorithm For Tracking and Analyzing Cells and Droplets Inside Microchannels, MicroTAS 2014, San Antonio, USA, 26-31 October, 2014.
W. M. Salman, M.S. Abdelsalam, M.F. F. El-Dosoky, and M. Abdelgawad, Effect of Electrical Conductivity and Permittivity of Liquids and Frequency of The Applied Voltage On Droplets Actuation On Digital Microfluidic Devices, MicroTAS 2014, San Antonio, USA, 26-31 October, 2014
D. G. Pyne, J. Liu, M. Abdelgawad, and Y. Sun, Automated vitrification of mammalian embryos on a Digital microfluidic device, MEMS 2014, San Fransisco, USA, 25-30 January 2014.
D. G. Pyne, W. M. Salman, M. Abdelgawad, and Y. Sun, Partially filled electrodes for digital microfluidic devices, MicroTAS 2013, Freiburg, Germany, 27-31October, 2013.
J. Chen, M. Abdelgawad, L. Yu, N. Shakiba, W. Y. Chien, Z. Lu, and Y. Sun, Electrodeformation For Single Cell Mechanical Characterization, MEMS 2011, Cancun, 23-27 January, 2011
M. Abdelgawad, Wei-Yin Chien, T. K. Liang, and Y. Sun, Microfluidic platform with circular microchannels for facile cell trapping and single cell analysis, microTAS 2010, Groningen, The Netherlands, 3-7 October, 2010.
M. Abdelgawad, C. Wu, W.Y. Chien, and Y. Sun, A Fast And Simple Method To Fabricate Circular Microchannels In Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), MEMS 2010, Hong Kong, 24-28 January, 2010.
M. J. Jebrail, N. A. Mousa, H. Yang, M. Abdelgawad, R. F. Casper, and A. R. Wheeler, Droplet-Scale Estrogen Assays in Breast Tissue, Blood, and Serum, microTAS 2009, Jeju, Korea, 1-5 November, 2009.
H. Yang, V. Luk, M. Abdelgawad, I. Barbulovic-Nad, and A. R. Wheeler, Exchangable Pre-Loaded “Skin Depot” for Digital Microfluidics, microTAS 2008, San Diego, California, 12-16 October, 2008.
A.R. Wheeler, M. Abdelgawad, M.W. Watson, Hybrid-Digital-Channel Microfludics for Pre-processing and Separations, microTAS 2008, San Diego, California, 12-16 October, 2008.
Sergio L.S. Freire, M. Abdelgawad, Hao Yang and Aaron Wheeler, 3D Droplet Actuation in Digital Microfluidics Devices: Towards Integration with Mass Spectrometry, microTAS 2007, Paris, France, 7-11 October 2007.
M. Abdelgawad and A. R. Wheeler, 3D Droplet Actuation in Digital Microfluidics Devices, Transducers’07, Lyon, France, 10-14 June, 2007.
M. Abdelgawad, I. Hassan, N. Esmail, and P. Phutthavong, Multistage Viscous Micropumps, ASME 2nd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels, Rochester, NY, USA, June 2004.
M. Abdelgawad, I. Hassan, P. Phutthavong, and N. Esmail, Towards a Better Understanding of Viscous Micropumps: Transient Performance, Eurotherm Seminar No.75-Microscale Heat Transfer2, University of Reims, France, July 2003.
P. Phutthavong, M. Abdelgawad, and I. Hassan, Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Microchannel Heat Sinks: An Overview of the Current State-of-The-Art, 3rd International Conference on Heat and Mass Transfer, Banff, Canada, May 2003.