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to provide smoother surfaces, smaller form factors, robustness and
better repeatability, faster prototyping, and therefore lower costs of
optofluidic devices. Commercialization of some of the reviewed tech-
nologies shows much promise for optofluidics for adaptation as an
evolving new field.

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