Ferrofluids investigated along for about five decades are ultrastable colloidal suspensions of
magnetic nanoparticles, which manifest simultaneously fluid and magnetic properties. Their …

Ferrofluids, also known as ferromagnetic particle suspensions, are materials with an
excellent magnetic response, which have attracted increasing interest in both industrial …

Droplet steering has important applications in biomedical detection, local chemical
reactions, liquid collection, and microfluidic control. Presently, droplet steering methods …

The magnetic manipulation of droplets is one of the emerging magnetofluidic technologies
that integrate multiple disciplines, such as electromagnetics, fluid mechanics and so on. The …

The fascinating behavior of ferrofluids in a magnetic field has been intriguing researchers for
many years. With the advancement in digital microfluidics, ferrofluid droplets have been …

Suitable micropumping methods for flow control represent a major technical hurdle in the
development of microfluidic systems for point-of-care testing (POCT). Passive micropumping …

An idea of permeable (suction/injection) chamber is proposed in the current work to control
the secondary vortices appearing in the well-known lid-driven cavity flow by means of the …

Lab-on-a-chip tools have played a pivotal role in advancing modern biology and medicine.
A key goal in this field is to precisely transport single particles and cells to specific locations …

To create a miniature shapeshifting robot capable of controlled movement, subdivision,
regeneration, passage through small channels, engulfment of particles, object manipulation …

Manipulating and separating single label-free cells without biomarker conjugation have
attracted significant interest in the field of single-cell research, but digital circuitry control and …