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 …

Particle separation and sorting in microfluidic devices: a review

P Sajeesh, AK Sen - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2014 - Springer
Separation and sorting of micron-sized particles has great importance in diagnostics,
chemical and biological analyses, food and chemical processing and environmental …

Blood cells separation and sorting techniques of passive microfluidic devices: From fabrication to applications

SO Catarino, RO Rodrigues, D Pinho, JM Miranda… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since the first microfluidic device was developed more than three decades ago, microfluidics
is seen as a technology that exhibits unique features to provide a significant change in the …

A review of secondary flow in inertial microfluidics

Q Zhao, D Yuan, J Zhang, W Li - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Inertial microfluidic technology, which can manipulate the target particle entirely relying on
the microchannel characteristic geometry and intrinsic hydrodynamic effect, has attracted …

Hybrid microfluidics combined with active and passive approaches for continuous cell separation

S Yan, J Zhang, D Yuan, W Li - Electrophoresis, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidics, which is classified as either active or passive, is capable of separating cells of
interest from a complex and heterogeneous sample. Active methods utilise external fields …

Inertial particle separation by differential equilibrium positions in a symmetrical serpentine micro-channel

J Zhang, S Yan, R Sluyter, W Li, G Alici, NT Nguyen - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
This paper presents an inertial microfluidic device with a simple serpentine micro-channel to
continuously separate particles with high performance. Separation of micro/nano-particles …

Micro-scale blood plasma separation: from acoustophoresis to egg-beaters

M Kersaudy-Kerhoas, E Sollier - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Plasma is a rich mine of various biomarkers including proteins, metabolites and circulating
nucleic acids. The diagnostic and therapeutic potential of these analytes has been quite …

Tunable particle separation in a hybrid dielectrophoresis (DEP)-inertial microfluidic device

J Zhang, D Yuan, Q Zhao, S Yan, SY Tang… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Particle separation is indispensable in many microfluidic systems and holds a broad range
of biomedical applications. Inertial microfluidic devices that work solely on intrinsic …

Inertial focusing of CTCs in a novel spiral microchannel

A Shiriny, M Bayareh - Chemical Engineering Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs), which are rare types of cancer cells, detach from a
primary tumor and enter the bloodstream, leading to the formation of metastatic cancer. One …

Passive blood plasma separation at the microscale: A review of design principles and microdevices

S Tripathi, YVBV Kumar, A Prabhakar… - Journal of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Blood plasma separation is vital in the field of diagnostics and health care. Due to the
inherent advantages obtained in the transition to microscale, the recent trend in these fields …