[HTML][HTML] Novel microfluidic approaches to circulating tumor cell separation and sorting of blood cells: A review

A Farahinia, WJ Zhang, I Badea - Journal of Science: Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
The separation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that originate from tumor or cancer tissue
plays an important role in cancer diagnostics, progression analyses, and treatment …

A comprehensive review of micro/nano precision glass molding molds and their fabrication methods

MA Asgar, J Kim, MR Haq, T Kim, S Kim - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Micro/nano-precision glass molding (MNPGM) is an efficient approach for manufacturing
micro/nanostructured glass components with intricate geometry and a high-quality optical …

Blood apheresis technologies–a critical review on challenges towards efficient blood separation and treatment

CJO Bacal, JW Maina, HH Nandurkar, M Khaleel… - Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Blood apheresis technologies are crucial during blood donation and toxin removal. Current
purification methods such as leukocytapheresis, erythrocytapheresis, thrombocytapheresis …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of syringe pump fluctuations on cell-free layer in hydrodynamic separation microfluidic devices

ME Haque, A Matin, X Wang, M Kersaudy-Kerhoas - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Syringe pumps are widely used biomedical equipment, which offer low-cost solutions to
drive and control flow through microfluidic chips. However, they have been shown to …

Challenges in blood fractionation for cancer liquid biopsy: how can microfluidics assist?

R Salomon, SR Bazaz, K Mutafopulos… - Lab on a Chip, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid biopsy provides a minimally invasive approach to characterise the molecular and
phenotypic characteristics of a patient's individual tumour by detecting evidence of …

A comprehensive study on frictional dependence and predictive accuracy of viscoelastic model for optical glass using compression creep test

J Yu, H Luo, Y Zhang, TV Nguyen… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Compression creep tests (CCTs) have been widely used in phenomenological
characterization of viscoelastic materials such as glasses. However, disturbed by specimen …

Fabrication of all glass microfluidic device with superior chemical and mechanical resistances by glass molding with vitreous carbon mold

MR Haq, YK Kim, J Kim, J Ju… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A glass microfluidic device with superior chemical and mechanical resistance was fabricated
using a cost-effective glass molding process with a vitreous carbon (VC) mold, which was …

A low-cost 3-in-1 3D printer as a tool for the fabrication of flow-through channels of microfluidic systems

T Thaweskulchai, A Schulte - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recently published studies have shown that microfluidic devices fabricated by in-house
three-dimensional (3D) printing, computer numerical control (CNC) milling and laser …

Direct metal forming of a microdome structure with a glassy carbon mold for enhanced boiling heat transfer

J Kim, D Hong, MA Badshah, X Lu, YK Kim, S Kim - Micromachines, 2018 - mdpi.com
The application of microtechnology to traditional mechanical industries is limited owing to
the lack of suitable micropatterning technology for durable materials including metal. In this …

Two-phase analysis of blood in microchannel architecture on plasma separation ability with dimensional variance

A Khaliq, B Lee, MA Kamran, MY Jeong - International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to study the effects of varying inlet channel angle in a novel
microfluidic architecture blood plasma separation ability over range of hematocrit values (5 …