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 …

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 …

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 …

This article reviews acoustic microfluidics: the use of acoustic fields, principally ultrasonics,
for application in microfluidics. Although acoustics is a classical field, its promising, and …

Fluid manipulations at the microscale and beyond are powerfully enabled through the use of
10–1,000-MHz acoustic waves. A superior alternative in many cases to other microfluidic …

Acoustofluidics offers contact-free manipulation of particles and fluids, enabling their uses in
various life sciences, such as for biological and medical applications. Recently, there have …

A microfluidic device was developed to separate heterogeneous particle or cell mixtures in a
continuous flow using acoustophoresis. In this device, two identical surface acoustic waves …

Ultrasound constitutes a powerful means for materials processing. Similarly, a new field has
emerged demonstrating the possibility for harnessing sound energy sources at considerably …

Generating aerosol droplets via the atomization of thin aqueous films with high frequency
surface acoustic waves (SAWs) offers several advantages over existing nebulization …

Regulating the motion of nanoscale objects on a solid surface is vital for a broad range of
technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, and mechanotechnology. In spite of …