Optoelectronic tweezers: a versatile toolbox for nano-/micro-manipulation

S Zhang, B Xu, M Elsayed, F Nan, W Liang… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Microfabrication technologies in dielectrophoresis applications—A review

R Martinez‐Duarte - Electrophoresis, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
DEP is an established technique for particle manipulation. Although first demonstrated in the
1950s, it was not until the development of miniaturization techniques in the 1990s that DEP …

High-purity and label-free isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in a microfluidic platform by using optically-induced-dielectrophoretic (ODEP) force

SB Huang, MH Wu, YH Lin, CH Hsieh, CL Yang… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Negative selection-based circulating tumor cell (CTC) isolation is believed valuable to
harvest more native, and in particular all possible CTCs without biases relevant to the …

Cell‐Based Micro/Nano‐Robots for Biomedical Applications: A Review

B Chen, H Sun, J Zhang, J Xu, Z Song, G Zhan, X Bai… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Micro/nano‐robots are powerful tools for biomedical applications and are applied in disease
diagnosis, tumor imaging, drug delivery, and targeted therapy. Among the various types of …

Advances in microfluidics‐based assisted reproductive technology: From sperm sorter to reproductive system‐on‐a‐chip

N Kashaninejad, MJA Shiddiky… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The fields of assisted reproductive technology (ART) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) have
progressed rapidly, yet still need further improvements. Microfluidic technology can …

Detection of rare objects by flow cytometry: imaging, cell sorting, and deep learning approaches

DV Voronin, AA Kozlova, RA Verkhovskii… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Flow cytometry nowadays is among the main working instruments in modern biology paving
the way for clinics to provide early, quick, and reliable diagnostics of many blood-related …

Optoelectrofluidic platforms for chemistry and biology

H Hwang, JK Park - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Extraordinary advances in lab on a chip systems have been made on the basis of the
development of micro/nanofluidics and its fusion with other technologies based on …

Modeling and development of a low frequency contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) platform to sort cancer cells from dilute whole blood samples

MB Sano, JL Caldwell, RV Davalos - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2011 - Elsevier
Contactless dielectrophoresis (cDEP) devices are a new adaptation of dielectrophoresis in
which fluid electrodes, isolated from the main microfluidic channel by a thin membrane …

Rapid and label-free identification of single leukemia cells from blood in a high-density microfluidic trapping array by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy

DH Lee, X Li, N Ma, MA Digman, AP Lee - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid screening and isolation of single leukemia cells from blood has become critical for
early leukemia detection and tumor heterogeneity interrogation. However, due to the size …

Dielectrophoresis-based microfluidic platforms for cancer diagnostics

JY Chan, AB Ahmad Kayani, MA Md Ali, CK Kok… - …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The recent advancement of dielectrophoresis (DEP)-enabled microfluidic platforms is
opening new opportunities for potential use in cancer disease diagnostics. DEP is …