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 …

Recent advances in microfluidic actuation and micro-object manipulation via surface acoustic waves

G Destgeer, HJ Sung - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The realization of microscale total analysis systems and lab-on-a-chip technologies requires
efficient actuation (mixing, pumping, atomizing, nebulizing, driving, etc.) of fluids on the …

Acoustofluidic particle manipulation inside a sessile droplet: four distinct regimes of particle concentration

G Destgeer, H Cho, BH Ha, JH Jung, J Park, HJ Sung - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we have investigated the motion of polystyrene microparticles inside a sessile
droplet of water actuated by surface acoustic waves (SAWs), which produce an acoustic …

Biochemical analysis on microfluidic chips

J Wu, Z He, Q Chen, JM Lin - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Biochemical analysis is crucial in understanding mechanism of life activities and giving
biological insights into life process. With inherent merits in flexible design, microscale of …

Detachable acoustofluidic system for particle separation via a traveling surface acoustic wave

Z Ma, DJ Collins, Y Ai - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Components in biomedical analysis tools that have direct contact with biological samples,
especially biohazardous materials, are ideally discarded after use to prevent cross …

Glial-fibrillary-acidic-protein (GFAP) biomarker detection in serum-matrix: Functionalization strategies and detection by an ultra-high-frequency surface-acoustic-wave …

M Agostini, F Amato, ML Vieri, G Greco… - Biosensors and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Glial-fibrillary-acidic-protein (GFAP) has recently drawn significant attention from
the clinical environment as a promising biomarker. The pathologies which can be linked to …

Ultra-high-frequency (UHF) surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) microfluidics and biosensors

M Agostini, M Cecchini - Nanotechnology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have the potential to become the basis for a wide gamut of
lab-on-a-chips (LoCs). These mechanical waves are among the most promising physics that …

Production of acoustic radiation force using ultrasound: methods and applications

MW Urban - Expert review of medical devices, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Acoustic radiation force (ARF) is used in many biomedical applications. The
transfer of momentum in acoustic waves can be used in a multitude of ways to perturb tissue …

A surface acoustic wave (SAW)-enhanced grating-coupling phase-interrogation surface plasmon resonance (SPR) microfluidic biosensor

A Sonato, M Agostini, G Ruffato, E Gazzola, D Liuni… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A surface acoustic wave (SAW)-enhanced, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) microfluidic
biosensor in which SAW-induced mixing and phase-interrogation grating-coupling SPR are …