Ferrofluids and bio-ferrofluids: Looking back and stepping forward

V Socoliuc, MV Avdeev, V Kuncser, R Turcu… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferrofluids investigated along for about five decades are ultrastable colloidal suspensions of
magnetic nanoparticles, which manifest simultaneously fluid and magnetic properties. Their …

Microneedle arrays for sampling and sensing skin interstitial fluid

N Kashaninejad, A Munaz, H Moghadas, S Yadav… - Chemosensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dermal interstitial fluid (ISF) is a novel source of biomarkers that can be considered as an
alternative to blood sampling for disease diagnosis and treatment. Nevertheless, in vivo …

Measured viscosity characteristics of Fe3O4 ferrofluid in magnetic and thermal fields

W Li, Z Li, W Han, Y Li, S Yan, Q Zhao, F Chen - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The rheological mechanisms governing the viscosity characteristics of nano-ferrofluids are
very complicated; there is no universal theoretical treatment that explains the dependence of …

Intelligent control of nanoparticle synthesis through machine learning

H Lv, X Chen - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis of nanoparticles is affected by many reaction conditions, and their properties
are usually determined by factors such as their size, shape and surface chemistry. In order …

Microfluidic mixing: A physics-oriented review

SM Saravanakumar, PV Cicek - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
This comprehensive review paper focuses on the intricate physics of microfluidics and their
application in micromixing techniques. Various methods for enhancing mixing in …

Droplet microfluidics for CTC-based liquid biopsy: a review

L Jiang, H Yang, W Cheng, Z Ni, N Xiang - Analyst, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are important biomarkers of liquid biopsy. The number and
heterogeneity of CTCs play an important role in cancer diagnosis and personalized …

Internal flow in sessile droplets induced by substrate oscillation: towards enhanced mixing and mass transfer in microfluidic systems

T Zhang, P Zhou, T Simon, T Cui - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2024 - nature.com
The introduction of flows within sessile droplets is highly effective for many lab-on-a-chip
chemical and biomedical applications. However, generating such flows is difficult due to the …

Microfluidic platform for synthesis and optimization of chitosan-coated magnetic nanoparticles in cisplatin delivery

S Siavashy, M Soltani, F Ghorbani-Bidkorbeh… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, magnetic core/chitosan shell Nanoparticles (NPs) containing cisplatin were
synthesized via cisplatin complexation with tripolyphosphate as the chitosan crosslinker …

Numerical study of droplet formation in the ordinary and modified T-junctions

X Li, L He, Y He, H Gu, M Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This work presents a flexible manipulation solution on droplet formation based on the
modified T-junction with a rectangular rib to reduce the droplet size and improve …

Numerical study on the effect of planar normal and Halbach magnet arrays on micromixing

D Bahrami, AA Nadooshan, M Bayareh - International Journal of …, 2020 - degruyter.com
The effective mixing process is critical in biological and chemical processes. The main
objective of the present study is to investigate the influence of normal and Halbach magnet …