Acoustofluidics for biomedical applications

J Rufo, F Cai, J Friend, M Wiklund… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustofluidic technologies utilize acoustic waves to manipulate fluids and particles within
fluids, all in a contact-free and biocompatible manner. Over the past decade, acoustofluidic …

Acoustic microfluidics

P Zhang, H Bachman, A Ozcelik… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Acoustic microfluidic devices are powerful tools that use sound waves to manipulate micro-
or nanoscale objects or fluids in analytical chemistry and biomedicine. Their simple device …

Acoustofluidic centrifuge for nanoparticle enrichment and separation

Y Gu, C Chen, Z Mao, H Bachman, R Becker, J Rufo… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Liquid droplets have been studied for decades and have recently experienced renewed
attention as a simplified model for numerous fascinating physical phenomena occurring on …

Acoustic holographic cell patterning in a biocompatible hydrogel

Z Ma, AW Holle, K Melde, T Qiu, K Poeppel… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustophoresis is promising as a rapid, biocompatible, noncontact cell manipulation
method, where cells are arranged along the nodes or antinodes of the acoustic field …

Micro/nano acoustofluidics: materials, phenomena, design, devices, and applications

W Connacher, N Zhang, A Huang, J Mei, S Zhang… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic actuation of fluids at small scales may finally enable a comprehensive lab-on-a-
chip revolution in microfluidics, overcoming long-standing difficulties in fluid and particle …

Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

HD Xi, H Zheng, W Guo, AM Gañán-Calvo, Y Ai… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate and sort droplets is a fundamental issue in droplet-based
microfluidics. Various lab-on-a-chip applications can only be realized if droplets are …

Microscale acoustic streaming for biomedical and bioanalytical applications

W Wei, Y Wang, Z Wang, X Duan - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, acoustofluidics, one of the branches of microfluidics, has rapidly
developed as a multidisciplinary cutting edge research topic, covering many biomedical and …

Self-adaptive virtual microchannel for continuous enrichment and separation of nanoparticles

Y Yang, L Zhang, K Jin, M He, W Wei, X Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The transport, enrichment, and purification of nanoparticles are fundamental activities in the
fields of biology, chemistry, material science, and medicine. Here, we demonstrate an …

Recent microfluidic advances in submicron to nanoparticle manipulation and separation

S Hettiarachchi, H Cha, L Ouyang, A Mudugamuwa… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulation and separation of submicron and nanoparticles are indispensable in many
chemical, biological, medical, and environmental applications. Conventional technologies …

Deterministic sorting of submicrometer particles and extracellular vesicles using a combined electric and acoustic field

M Tayebi, D Yang, DJ Collins, Y Ai - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sorting of extracellular vesicles has important applications in early stage diagnostics.
Current exosome isolation techniques, however, suffer from being costly, having long …