Sheathless inertial particle focusing methods within microfluidic devices: a review

T Peng, J Qiang, S Yuan - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The ability to manipulate and focus particles within microscale fluidic environments is crucial
to advancing biological, chemical, and medical research. Precise and high-throughput …

Enzymatic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing with Bacteria Identification in 30 min

W Wu, B Zhang, W Yin, L Xia, Y Suo, G Cai… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) with the ability of bacterial identification is
urgently needed for evidence-based antibiotic prescription. Herein, we propose an …

Microparticle Manipulation Performed on a Swirl-Based Microfluidic Chip Featured by Dual-Stagnation Points

Y Dang, S Hu, Z Ou, Q Zhang - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stagnation-based microfluidics technology is promising for microparticle control due to its
noncontact and low cost. However, the current research is still hindered by insufficient pose …

Geometric optimization of double layered microchannel with grooves array for enabling nanoparticle manipulation

B Zhang, W Wu, Q Zhao, S Yan - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Microfluidic manipulation has been widely applied in bio-chemical research and
applications, including bacteria/cell/protein mixing, separation, focusing, concentration, and …

Microfluidic technologies for advanced antimicrobial susceptibility testing

W Wu, Y Mu - Biomicrofluidics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Antimicrobial resistance is getting serious and becoming a threat to public health worldwide.
The improper and excessive use of antibiotics is responsible for this situation. The standard …

A microparticle manipulation method facilitated via microfluidic chip based on swirling flow topology design and its application in sorting

Y Dang, Q Zhang, S Hu, Z Ou - Journal of Industrial and Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microfluidics technology is trustworthy for microparticle operation as it doesn't involve
destructive contact. Our research endeavors have encompassed microparticles …

A novel microparticle size sorting technology based on sheath flow stable expansion regimes

B Zhang, W Zhao, D Yuan, T Wang, W Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Previously we have originally reported and experimentally explored the stable expansion
phenomenon of sheath flow in straight microchannels. The stable expansion phenomenon …

Numerical study of viscoelastic microfluidic particle manipulation in a microchannel with asymmetrical expansions

T Wang, D Yuan, W Wan, B Zhang - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic microparticle manipulation is currently widely used in environmental, bio-
chemical, and medical applications. Previously we proposed a straight microchannel with …

Quantitative analysis of particle behavior constituting multiple coherent structures in liquid bridges

S Noguchi, I Ueno - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2025 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Coherent structures by low-Stokes-number particles are induced within a closed
flow, in which ordered flow regions known as Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) tori emerge …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient Particle Manipulation Using Contraction–Expansion Microchannels Embedded with Hook-Shaped Arrays

D Huang, Y Zhao, C Cao, J Zhao - Micromachines, 2025 - mdpi.com
Inertial microfluidics, as an efficient method for the manipulation of micro-/nanoparticles, has
garnered significant attention due to its advantages of high throughput, structural simplicity …