Elevating chemistry research with a modern electronics toolkit

GRD Prabhu, PL Urban - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the rapid development of high technology, chemical science is not as it used to be a
century ago. Many chemists acquire and utilize skills that are well beyond the traditional …

Acoustic levitation of liquid drops: Dynamics, manipulation and phase transitions

D Zang, Y Yu, Z Chen, X Li, H Wu, X Geng - Advances in colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The technique of acoustic levitation normally produces a standing wave and the potential
well of the sound field can be used to trap small objects. Since no solid surface is involved it …

Temperature and chemical composition of droplets by optical measurement techniques: a state-of-the-art review

F Lemoine, G Castanet - Experiments in fluids, 2013 - Springer
The measurement of the sizes and the velocities of droplets relies upon widespread and
well-established techniques, but characterizing their temperature and their composition …

Ultrasonic acoustic levitation for fast frame rate X-ray protein crystallography at room temperature

S Tsujino, T Tomizaki - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Increasing the data acquisition rate of X-ray diffraction images for macromolecular crystals at
room temperature at synchrotrons has the potential to significantly accelerate both structural …

Lossless enrichment of trace analytes in levitating droplets for multiphase and multiplex detection

X Chen, Q Ding, C Bi, J Ruan, S Yang - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Concentrating a trace amount of molecules from liquids, solid objects, or the gas phase and
delivering them to a localized area are crucial for almost any trace analyte detection device …

Numerical and experimental investigation of the stability of a drop in a single-axis acoustic levitator

MAB Andrade, A Marzo - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic levitation can be employed to hold liquid drops in midair, enabling novel
applications in X-ray scattering of proteins, amorphous crystallization of solutions, or …

Real-time monitoring of live mycobacteria with a microfluidic acoustic-Raman platform

VO Baron, M Chen, B Hammarstrom… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Lipid rich, phenotypically
antibiotic tolerant, bacteria are more resistant to antibiotics and may be responsible for …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental investigation of the particle oscillation instability in a single-axis acoustic levitator

MAB Andrade, S Polychronopoulos, G Memoli… - AIP Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Single-axis acoustic levitators are employed in biomedicine, chemistry and physics
experiments due to their ability to trap in mid-air objects of a wide range of materials and …

Analysis of the particle stability in a new designed ultrasonic levitation device

S Baer, MAB Andrade, C Esen… - Review of Scientific …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The use of acoustic levitation in the fields of analytical chemistry and in the containerless
processing of materials requires a good stability of the levitated particle. However …

Nonlinear coupling between radial and axial vibrations during single-axis acoustic levitation in mid-air

N Sugita, T Oshino, T Shinshi - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a nonlinear dynamic model of single-axis standing-wave acoustic levitation is
studied theoretically and experimentally to explore the effect of nonlinear coupling between …