Selected papers from the 2nd European conference on microfluidics: \u3bcFlu'10

The Second European Conference on Microfluidics (lFlu10) was held in Toulouse in December 8\u201310, 2010, under the sponsorship of the Hydro-technical Society of France (SHF), the Alma Mater Studiorum Universita` di Bologna and the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of Toulouse. This event has gathered 283 participants from 34 countries. During 3 days, 200 communications have been presented in 11 thematic sessions including Convective Micro Heat Transfer, Electrokinetic Microflows, Fluidic Microactuators and Micromixing, Gas Microflows, Lab on a Chip and Miniaturized Chemistry, Liquid Microflows, Microdroplets Management, Microfabrication Techniques for Microfluidic Systems, Microflows in Bioengineering and Biofluidics, Microflow Visualisation and Measurements, and Two-Phase Flows in microsystems. In addition, this edition hosted a special session on recent developments of research on Cilia-Driven Flows. This special volume of the Journal of Microsystem Technologies focuses the attention of the readers on a selection of 9 interesting works presented during the three oral sessions and one poster session dedicated to the microfabrication techniques for microfluidic systems