ETH Zürich View Institution's Website 1 article published in JoVE Bioengineering Fluorescence detection methods for microfluidic droplet platforms Xavier Casadevall i Solvas1, Xize Niu1, Katherine Leeper1, Soongwon Cho1, Soo-Ik Chang2, Joshua B. Edel1, Andrew J. deMello3 1Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, 2Department of Biochemistry, Protein Chip Research Center, Chungbuk National University, 3Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich Droplet-based microfluidic platforms are promising candidates for high throughput experimentation since they are able to generate picoliter, self-compartmentalized vessels inexpensively at kHz rates. Through integration with fast, sensitive and high resolution fluorescence spectroscopic methods, the large amounts of information generated within these systems can be efficiently extracted, harnessed and utilized.