[Tex/LaTex] How to create a two column table, with different amount of rows for each column – latex Overleaf

Question

I am trying to create a table similar to the one I am attaching. It has two columns, but the rows per column are different.

I am trying to use multicolumn and multirow but until now I have simply created a mess.

\begin{table}[h]
\small
  \caption{Features for the creation of a microfluidic platform. Table adapted from \cite{VanDenBerg2010}.}
  \label{tbl:buffer}
  \begin{tabular*}{0.80\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}ll}
    \hline
    Microfluidic unit operations & Fabrication technology \\
    \hline\\
    \multirow{5}{*}{Fluid transport  Fluid metering  Fluid  valving   Fluid mixing   Separation} & \multicolumn{1}{m{6cm}}{Validated manufacturing technology for the whole set of fluidic unit operations (prototyping and mass fabrication} \\

   \hline
  \end{tabular*}
\end{table}

Answer 1

Maybe you are interested in a result like the following (without bullet points):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
\small
  \caption{Features for the creation of a microfluidic platform. Table adapted from \cite{VanDenBerg2010}.}
  \label{tbl:buffer}
  \begin{tabularx}{0.80\textwidth}{p{4cm}X}
    \toprule
    Microfluidic unit operations & Fabrication technology \\
    \midrule
    Fluid transport  \newline 
    Fluid metering  \newline 
    Fluid  valving  \newline 
    Fluid mixing   \newline 
    Separation 
    & Validated manufacturing technology for the whole set of fluidic unit operations (prototyping and mass fabrication) \\ \addlinespace
    Accumulation/amplification \newline 
    Reagent storage \& release \newline
    Incubation \newline
    ...
    & Seamless integration of different elements \newline 
    ... preferable in a monolithic way \newline
    ... or by a well defined easy packaging technique\\
   \bottomrule
  \end{tabularx}
\end{table}

\end{document}

In order to allow for automated line breaks in table cells, I used a p type and an X type column. The latter is introduced by the tabularx package and exactly occupies the width of the whole table minus the widths of the other columns. For manual linebreaks in table cells, I have used \newline. I have also replaced the \hline commands by the rules from the booktabs package in oder to have some more white space around them.