Label-free isolation of exosomes using microfluidic technologies

S Hassanpour Tamrin, A Sanati Nezhad, A Sen - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are cell-derived structures packaged with lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They
exist in diverse bodily fluids and are involved in physiological and pathological processes …

Multiphysics microfluidics for cell manipulation and separation: a review

H Cha, H Fallahi, Y Dai, D Yuan, H An, NT Nguyen… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

Precise size-based cell separation via the coupling of inertial microfluidics and deterministic lateral displacement

N Xiang, J Wang, Q Li, Y Han, D Huang… - Analytical chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report here a novel two-stage i-DLD sorter through coupling inertial microfluidics with
deterministic lateral displacement (DLD), allowing for precise, continuous, and size-based …

A review of dielectrophoretic separation and classification of non‐biological particles

GR Pesch, F Du - Electrophoresis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a selective electrokinetic particle manipulation technology that is
applied for almost 100 years and currently finds most applications in biomedical research …

Recent advances in direct current electrokinetic manipulation of particles for microfluidic applications

X Xuan - Electrophoresis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic devices have been extensively used to achieve precise transport and placement
of a variety of particles for numerous applications. A range of force fields have thus far been …

Joint subarray acoustic tweezers enable controllable cell translation, rotation, and deformation

L Shen, Z Tian, K Yang, J Rich, J Xia, N Upreti… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contactless microscale tweezers are highly effective tools for manipulating, patterning, and
assembling bioparticles. However, current tweezers are limited in their ability to …

Nanoconfinement and Crowding Enhanced Single-Molecule Detection of Small Molecules with Nanopipettes

S Khatri, P Pandey, G Mejia, G Ghimire… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Glass nanopipettes have gained widespread use as a versatile single-entity detector in
chemical and biological sensing, analysis, and imaging. Its advantages include low cost …

A polymer-film inertial microfluidic sorter fabricated by jigsaw puzzle method for precise size-based cell separation

Z Zhu, D Wu, S Li, Y Han, N Xiang, C Wang, Z Ni - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
A polymer-film inertial microfluidic jigsaw (PIMJ) sorter with trapezoidal spiral channels
using the jigsaw puzzle method was proposed to realize precise and high-throughput rare …

Methods of generating dielectrophoretic force for microfluidic manipulation of bioparticles

EA Kwizera, M Sun, AM White, J Li… - ACS biomaterials science …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Manipulation of microscale bioparticles including living cells is of great significance to the
broad bioengineering and biotechnology fields. Dielectrophoresis (DEP), which is defined …

The essential role of the plasma sheath in plasma–liquid interaction and its applications—A perspective

P Vanraes, A Bogaerts - Journal of Applied Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Based on the current knowledge, a plasma–liquid interface looks and behaves very
differently from its counterpart at a solid surface. Local processes characteristic to most …