MFHS2026: MFHS2026: The 6th conference on MicroFluidic Handling Systems De Kleine Willem Enschede, Netherlands, September 28-30, 2026

About the Conference

Worldwide, accurate handling — i.e. analysis, dosage, measurement and control — of small and extremely small flows of both gases and liquids is becoming more and more important, driven by numerous applications.

Examples of economically and societally relevant applications are e.g.:

• Consumer: printing technologies, haptics
• Environmental: air, soil and water quality
• Medical: multi-infusion systems, respiratory systems for patients with lung diseases, diagnostics
• Analytical: equipment for high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and mass-spectrometry (MS)
• Life sciences: flow and pressure control in organ-on-a-chip systems
• Energy: research on catalysts, energy content measurement in (mixtures of) fuel gases including biogas and hydrogen, oil testing
• Food & beverage, agriculture: dosage systems for accurately dosing additives like e.g. vitamins to food and beverages, production of specialty baby food with high nutritional value, food safety
• Pharmaceutical & chemical: production of vaccines and pharmaceuticals by means of flow chemistry and fermentation
• Semiconductor: production of solar cell panels with CVD and ALD processes, electronic cooling now emerging as a particularly promising application

Whether in analytical instrumentation, flow chemistry, energy, pharma, semiconductor industry, food and beverage or life sciences – microfluidic handling systems are facing several major trends:

1. a need for accurate measurement and calibration facilities;
2. a need for complete functional systems rather than for the individual components;
3. commercialisation of academic research results;
4. standardisation of fabrication technology & materials, modules & connections, and quality assurance & test equipment;
5. cross-overs between technologies, e.g. microfluidics and electronics, and microfluidics and robotics, and last but not least
6. the rise of machine-learning enhanced fluidic systems.

In the future, the impact of this field of research may become even bigger and potentially large target markets may arise, especially when spin-off companies start manufacturing and selling their products, systems or pilot plants.

The focus of this conference is mainly on the technology, components, devices and systems that enable the application in microfluidic systems. We invite submission of papers on systems and devices for accurate handling (e.g. dosing, measurement, analysis and control) of (extremely) small flows of both gases and liquids, and corresponding measurement and control principles, including cross-over technologies with e.g. electronics and robotics, and machine learning enhanced fluidic systems.

Submission Guidelines

There are two types of presentations for which an author can submit an abstract: an oral or a poster presentation. In both cases, a two-page abstract needs to submitted via the online system. Templates in Word and Latex can be downloaded here:

Download 2-page abstract templates

More information will be available here once the online abstract submission system has opened.

List of Topics

The sixth International Conference on MicroFluidic Handling Systems invites contributions describing the latest scientific, industrial, and technological research results in subjects including, but not restricted to:

• Flow and fluid composition: Sensors for flow, pressure, viscosity, temperature, conductivity, heat capacity, density, pH, refractive index, relative permittivity.
• Flow control: Valves (normally open and normally closed), micropumps, mixers, dispensers, micro reactors, droplet generators, actuation principles (piezo, electrostatic, SMA, thermopneumatic,…).
• Fluidic systems: Mass flow controllers, precision mixing, dosing and dispensing, calibration, multiparameter systems, evaporators.
• Machine learning: Fluid classification, prediction of water-in-oil emulsion sizes, micropump design and performance improvement, self-sensing of piezo driven microfluidic actuators, deep learning architectures for biological analysis, deep learning for experimental design and control.
• Applications: Gas chromatographs, liquid chromatographs, medical analyses, micro reaction systems, bio-analytical systems, flow chemistry, organ-on-a-chip, production of pharmaceuticals, integrated cooling of power electronics, patch pumps, drug delivery in surgical robot systems, implantable drug delivery systems, gas sensor systems with sampling, scent dosing systems.

Author Guidelines

Oral presentation guidelines

• Respect the time limit of 15 minutes for the Oral presentation itself. We have a tight schedule, longer presentations will be interrupted.
• After 15 minutes, there is 3 minutes for questions from the audience and 2 minutes left for switching speakers and slides.
• You are expected to bring you own computer with HDMI connection. Alternatively, bring your slides on USB-stick in Portable Document File (PDF) or Microsoft PowerPoint (PPTX) format. Be aware that using fancy fonts or embedded videos might break your presentation.
• All computers must have sleep mode turned OFF prior to connecting to the beamer.
• A pointer and microphone will be provided.
• Find your oral in the session program.
• Please have yourself and your slides ready before the start of your session, present yourself to the session chair before the session starts.
• Your slides should contain readable text and high quality figures.
• A template is not available. You are free to create your own presentation.

Poster Guidelines

• All posters should have A0 paper size (1189 mm x 841 mm).
• Mount your poster at the dedicated poster board, as will be specified at the conference location.
• Pushpins and/or magnets will be provided for your use.
• Your poster should contain readable text and high quality figures, clear from a distance of two meters.
• The posters should be placed as early as possible on the poster boards.
• A template is not available. You are free to create your own poster.

Sessions and Track Chairs

Publication

Extended abstracts will be published in the MFHS 2026 conference proceedings. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of Micromachines after the standard journal reviewing process.

Venue

The MFHS2026 conference will be held in Enschede. An university city in the east of the Netherlands. We would like to welcome you to 'De Kleine Willem', an old theatre in the city centre of Enschede. This location is in between the shops and the restaurants. A good way to experience the university city outside of campus.

Contact

For more information on MFHS2026, please contact Marthe Kampman: mfhs2026@utwente.nl