Pumping of fluids with precise control is one of the key components in a microfluidic device.
The electric field has been used as one of the most popular and efficient nonmechanical …

Vesicles perform many essential functions in all living organisms. They respond like a
transducer to mechanical stress in converting the applied force into mechanical and …

Solid-state nanopore (SSN)-based analytical methods have found abundant use in
genomics and proteomics with fledgling contributions to virology–a clinically critical field with …

Deformation of flexible vesicles suspended in a fluid medium due to an applied electric field
can provide valuable insight into deformation dynamics at a very small scale. In an electric …

Electrorotation is widely used for characterization of biological cells and materials using a
rotating electric field. Generally, multiphase AC electric fields and quadrupolar electrode …

In this paper, we develop a coupled immersed boundary (IB) and immersed interface
method (IIM) to simulate the interfacial flow problems with soluble surfactant. That is, a …

Dielectrophoresis (DEP) for bio-particle manipulation has been drawing much attention in
recent years. The equivalent dipole moment method (EDM) has widely been used to …

The local electric field distorsion induced by a dielectric particle leads to particle–particle
interactions and assembly which is very interesting for their useful applications on …

Study of the deformation dynamics of cells and other sub‐micron vesicles, such as virus and
neurotransmitter vesicles are necessary to understand their functional properties. This …

This research delves into the dielectrophoresis (DEP) behavior of a biological cell within a
sinusoidal-shaped microchannel utilizing the Maxwell stress tensor (MST) theory. A red …