Channel innovations for inertial microfluidics

W Tang, S Zhu, D Jiang, L Zhu, J Yang, N Xiang - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Inertial microfluidics has gained significant attention since first being proposed in 2007
owing to the advantages of simplicity, high throughput, precise manipulation, and freedom …

Label-free isolation of exosomes using microfluidic technologies

S Hassanpour Tamrin, A Sanati Nezhad, A Sen - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are cell-derived structures packaged with lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They
exist in diverse bodily fluids and are involved in physiological and pathological processes …

Recent microfluidic advances in submicron to nanoparticle manipulation and separation

S Hettiarachchi, H Cha, L Ouyang, A Mudugamuwa… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulation and separation of submicron and nanoparticles are indispensable in many
chemical, biological, medical, and environmental applications. Conventional technologies …

Advances in technical assessment of spiral inertial microfluidic devices toward bioparticle separation and profiling: A critical review

M Bagi, F Amjad, SM Ghoreishian… - BioChip Journal, 2024 - Springer
Separation of micro-and nano-sized bioparticles is essential for efficient diagnostics,
chemical and biological analyses, drug development, food and chemical processing, and …

Novel pumping methods for microfluidic devices: a comprehensive review

AP Iakovlev, AS Erofeev, PV Gorelkin - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review is an account of methods that use various strategies to control microfluidic flow
control with high accuracy. The reviewed systems are divided into two large groups based …

A review of secondary flow in inertial microfluidics

Q Zhao, D Yuan, J Zhang, W Li - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Inertial microfluidic technology, which can manipulate the target particle entirely relying on
the microchannel characteristic geometry and intrinsic hydrodynamic effect, has attracted …

Microfluidic platforms for extracellular vesicle isolation, analysis and therapy in cancer

CM Abreu, B Costa-Silva, RL Reis, SC Kundu… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small lipidic particles packed with proteins, DNA, messenger
RNA and microRNAs of their cell of origin that act as critical players in cell–cell …

Recent progress of inertial microfluidic-based cell separation

X Xu, X Huang, J Sun, R Wang, J Yao, W Han, M Wei… - Analyst, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell separation has consistently been a pivotal technology of sample preparation in
biomedical research. Compared with conventional bulky cell separation technologies …

Advanced microfluidic technologies for isolating extracellular vesicles

S Zhang, J Deng, J Li, F Tian, C Liu, L Fang… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid membrane-enclosed, cell-secreted nanovesicles that
have attracted significant attentions in recent years in view of their potential as non-invasive …

Advances in continuous-flow based microfluidic PCR devices—A review

MB Kulkarni, S Goel - Engineering Research Express, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method typically active in genetic research,
especially to amplify or copy genes. Herein, the application of microfluidic devices for …