Microfluidics has experienced massive growth in the past two decades, and especially with advances in rapid prototyping researchers have explored a multitude of channel structures …
JM Martel, M Toner - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2014 - annualreviews.org
When Segré and Silberberg in 1961 witnessed particles in a laminar pipe flow congregating at an annulus in the pipe, scientists were perplexed and spent decades learning why such …
Microfluidic flow is commonly employed in the biological, chemical, or physical analysis of samples in small fluid volumes because of the typical lack of nonlinear phenomena, with …
G Guan, L Wu, AA Bhagat, Z Li, PCY Chen, S Chao… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
The paper reports a new method for three-dimensional observation of the location of focused particle streams along both the depth and width of the channel cross-section in …
Rare cells in blood, such as circulating tumor cells or fetal cells in the maternal circulation, posses a great prognostic or diagnostic value, or for the development of personalized …
EJ Lim, TJ Ober, JF Edd, SP Desai, D Neal… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Controlled manipulation of particles from very large volumes of fluid at high throughput is critical for many biomedical, environmental and industrial applications. One promising …
An effective approach to separating shaped particles is needed to isolate disease-causing cells for diagnostics or to aid in purifying nonspherical particles in applications ranging from …
The decoupled effects of Reynolds and Dean numbers are examined in inertial focusing flows. In doing so, a complex set of inertial focusing behavioral regimes is discovered within …
Massive growth of the microfluidics field has triggered numerous advances in focusing, separating, ordering, concentrating, and mixing of microparticles. Microfluidic systems …