Acoustic tweezers for the life sciences

A Ozcelik, J Rufo, F Guo, Y Gu, P Li, J Lata, TJ Huang - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers are a versatile set of tools that use sound waves to manipulate
bioparticles ranging from nanometer-sized extracellular vesicles to millimeter-sized …

[HTML][HTML] Rotation of biological cells: fundamentals and applications

T Tang, Y Hosokawa, T Hayakawa, Y Tanaka, W Li… - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Cell rotation is one of the most important techniques for cell manipulation in modern
bioscience, as it not only permits cell observation from any arbitrary angle, but also simplifies …

A robot-assisted acoustofluidic end effector

J Durrer, P Agrawal, A Ozgul, SCF Neuhauss… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid manipulation is the foundation of most laboratory processes. For macroscale liquid
handling, both do-it-yourself and commercial robotic systems are available; however, for …

Programmable photoacoustic patterning of microparticles in air

R Zhang, X Zhao, J Li, D Zhou, H Guo, Z Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical and acoustic tweezers, despite operating on different physical principles, offer non-
contact manipulation of microscopic and mesoscopic objects, making them essential in …

Acoustically Driven Cell-Based Microrobots for Targeted Tumor Therapy

HX Cao, VD Nguyen, D Jung, E Choi, CS Kim, JO Park… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Targeted drug delivery using microrobots manipulated by an external actuator has
significant potential to be a practical approach for wireless delivery of therapeutic agents to …

[HTML][HTML] Potential of the acoustic micromanipulation technologies for biomedical research

F Akkoyun, S Gucluer, A Ozcelik - Biomicrofluidics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic micromanipulation technologies are a set of versatile tools enabling unparalleled
micromanipulation capabilities. Several characteristics put the acoustic micromanipulation …

Trapping cell spheroids and organoids using digital acoustofluidics

H Cai, Z Wu, Z Ao, A Nunez, B Chen, L Jiang… - …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The precise positioning and arrangement of cell spheroids and organoids are critical to
reconstructing complex tissue architecture for tissue engineering and regenerative …

Acoustic tweezers based on circular, slanted-finger interdigital transducers for dynamic manipulation of micro-objects

P Kang, Z Tian, S Yang, W Yu, H Zhu, H Bachman… - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic tweezing technologies are gaining significant attention from the scientific
communities due to their versatility and biocompatibility. This study presents acoustic …

Next-generation optical nanotweezers for dynamic manipulation: from surface to bulk

S Ghosh, A Ghosh - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Optical traps based on strongly confined electromagnetic fields at metal–dielectric interfaces
are far more efficient than conventional optical tweezers. Specifically, these near-field …

Automation and flow control for particle manipulation

D Kumar, A Shenoy, J Deutsch… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, several new methods have been developed to precisely manipulate small
particles using optical, electric, acoustic, magnetic, or fluidic fields. Automated fluidic …