"Version: 20190801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Introduction : open-channel microfluidics and open microfluidics -- 1. Capillarity theoretical basis -- 1.1. Liquid surface tension -- 1.2. Laplace pressure -- 1.3. Liquid-liquid surface tension -- 1.4. Contact with solid surface : Young's …