Fundamentals and applications of inertial microfluidics: A review

J Zhang, S Yan, D Yuan, G Alici, NT Nguyen… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last decade, inertial microfluidics has attracted significant attention and a wide variety
of channel designs that focus, concentrate and separate particles and fluids have been …

Inertial microfluidic physics

H Amini, W Lee, D Di Carlo - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Inertial focusing in microfluidics

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 …

Nonlinear microfluidics

D Stoecklein, D Di Carlo - Analytical chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …

Spiral microchannel with rectangular and trapezoidal cross-sections for size based particle separation

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 …

Continuous flow microfluidic separation and processing of rare cells and bioparticles found in blood–A review

M Antfolk, T Laurell - Analytica chimica acta, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Inertio-elastic focusing of bioparticles in microchannels at high throughput

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 …

Continuous inertial focusing and separation of particles by shape

M Masaeli, E Sollier, H Amini, W Mao, K Camacho… - Physical Review X, 2012 - APS
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 …

Particle focusing in curved microfluidic channels

JM Martel, M Toner - Scientific Reports, 2013 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Label-free microfluidic sorting of microparticles

J Zhou, P Mukherjee, H Gao, Q Luan… - APL bioengineering, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Massive growth of the microfluidics field has triggered numerous advances in focusing,
separating, ordering, concentrating, and mixing of microparticles. Microfluidic systems …