Microfluidic systems (MFS) provide a range of advantages in biomedical applications, including improved controllability of material characteristics and lower consumption of reagents, energy, time and money. Fabrication of MFS employs various materials, such as glass, silicon, ceramics, paper, and metals such as gold, copper, aluminum, chromium and titanium. In this review, gold thin film microfluidic channels (GTFMFC) are discussed with reference to fabrication methods and their diverse use in chemical and biomedical applications. The advantages of gold thin films (GTF) include flexibility, ease of manufacture, adhesion to polymer surfaces, chemical stability, good electrical conductivity, surface plasmon resonance effects, ability to be chemically functionalized, etc. Various electroactuators and electroanalytical devices can incorporate GTF. GTF-based MFS have been used in environmental monitoring, assays of biomarkers, immunoassays, cell culture studies and pathogen identification.

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具有化学和生物医学应用的金薄膜通道的微流体装置：综述。

微流体系统（MFS）在生物医学应用中提供了一系列优势，包括改善的材料特性可控性和更低的试剂消耗，能源，时间和金钱。MFS的制造使用各种材料，例如玻璃，硅，陶瓷，纸和金属，例如金，铜，铝，铬和钛。在这篇综述中，金薄膜微流体通道（GTFMFC）是参考制造方法及其在化学和生物医学应用中的多种用途而讨论的。金薄膜（GTF）的优点包括柔韧性，易于制造，与聚合物表面的附着力，化学稳定性，良好的导电性，表面等离子体共振效应，被化学官能化的能力等。各种电致动器和电分析装置都可以包含GTF。