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 …

Tunable thermal conduction force without macroscopic temperature gradients

H Tan, Y Qiu, L Xu, J Huang - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Ubiquitous thermal conduction makes its force effect particularly important in diverse fields,
such as electronic engineering and biochemistry. However, regulating thermal conduction …

Influence of particle shape and material on the acoustic radiation force and microstreaming in a standing wave

A Pavlic, P Nagpure, L Ermanni, J Dual - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
In view of its influence on the acoustic radiation force, we investigate the microstreaming
around a small solid elastic particle in an ultrasonic standing wave in dependence of its …

Effect of viscosity on surface acoustic wave driven collective particle dynamics in sessile droplets: Cloud, cavities, and aggregates

S Song, J Zhou, A Riaud - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) can concentrate micro-particles in droplets within seconds.
Yet, the mechanism is not clear and existing explanations fail by several orders of …

Scheme of acoustic radiation force on general uniform structure

M Gong, Y Qiao, X Xu, J Liu, A He, X Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic manipulation based on acoustic radiation force (ARF) is an important structure
manipulation method, which has a wide application prospect in particle manipulation. The …

Soundiation: A software in evaluation of acoustophoresis driven by radiation force and torque on axisymmetric objects

T Tang, L Huang - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustic radiation force and torque arising from wave scattering are commonly used to
manipulate micro-objects without contact. We applied the partial wave expansion series and …

Mean acoustic fields exerted on a subwavelength axisymmetric particle

EB Lima, GT Silva - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The acoustic radiation force produced by ultrasonic waves is the “workhorse” of particle
manipulation in acoustofluidics. Nonspherical particles are also subjected to a mean torque …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional acoustic radiation force of a eukaryotic cell arbitrarily positioned in a Gaussian beam

S Li, X Zhang - Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering (NPE), 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Expressions are derived for calculating the three-dimensional acoustic radiation force (ARF)
on a multilayer microsphere positioned arbitrarily in a Gaussian beam. A theoretical model …

Three-dimensional trapping and dynamic axial manipulation with frequency-tuned spiraling acoustical tweezers: a theoretical study

Z Gong, M Baudoin - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
Holographic acoustical tweezers based on Archimedes-Fermat spiraling interdigitated
transducers (SIDTs) are a versatile tool for the selective manipulation of microparticles …

Non-invasive manipulation scheme of spherical particle in viscous fluids in a tube based on acoustic radiation force

M Gong, X Xu, Z Fei, Y Li, T Liu, S Gao, J Liu… - The Journal of the …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A theoretical solution of the acoustic radiation force (ARF) on spherical particles by an
arbitrary beam in viscous fluids in a tube is proposed. Based on the parametric design with …