MFHS2026

Welcome to MFHS2026, THE 6^TH CONFERENCE ON MICROFLUIDIC HANDLING SYSTEMS, 28-30 September 2026 in Enschede, The Netherlands.

MFHS2026 congratulates the winners of Best Oral and Best Poster awards of this event:

Best Oral presentation:

1. Nina Häselhoff
2. Chang Liu
3. Juul Goossens 

Best Poster presentation:

1. Anne Zimmermann
2. Jonas Vandevenne
3. Pavlos Athanasakis

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.

Contact

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

Important dates

Previous conferences

Special issue MDPI Micromachines

Similar to previous years, the best papers from the conference will be selected for a special issue of MDPI Micromachines. Manuscripts submitted to the journal should be extended by at least 40% compared with that of the conference.
Furthermore, Micromachines sponsors the best paper and best poster award.