Holographic acoustic elements for manipulation of levitated objects

A Marzo, SA Seah, BW Drinkwater, DR Sahoo… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Sound can levitate objects of different sizes and materials through air, water and tissue. This
allows us to manipulate cells, liquids, compounds or living things without touching or …

Production of acoustic radiation force using ultrasound: methods and applications

MW Urban - Expert review of medical devices, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Acoustic radiation force (ARF) is used in many biomedical applications. The
transfer of momentum in acoustic waves can be used in a multitude of ways to perturb tissue …

Ultrasonic super-oscillation wave-packets with an acoustic meta-lens

YX Shen, YG Peng, F Cai, K Huang, DG Zhao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The Schrödinger equation is a fundamental equation to describe the wave function of a
quantum-mechanical system. The similar forms between the Schrödinger equation and the …

Acoustic levitation of a large solid sphere

MAB Andrade, AL Bernassau… - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that acoustic levitation can levitate spherical objects much larger than the
acoustic wavelength in air. The acoustic levitation of an expanded polystyrene sphere of 50 …

Focusing acoustic beams with a ball-shaped lens beyond the diffraction limit

JH Lopes, MAB Andrade, JP Leao-Neto… - Physical Review …, 2017 - APS
We report on measurements of a subwavelength focusing of an ultrasound beam by a
polymer ball-shaped lens (Rexolite) immersed in water at room temperature. The beam …

Acoustically Driven Cell-Based Microrobots for Targeted Tumor Therapy

HX Cao, VD Nguyen, D Jung, E Choi, CS Kim, JO Park… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Targeted drug delivery using microrobots manipulated by an external actuator has
significant potential to be a practical approach for wireless delivery of therapeutic agents to …

Medical microrobot-wireless manipulation of a drug delivery carrier through an external ultrasonic actuation: Preliminary results

HS Lee, G Go, E Choi, B Kang, JO Park… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
To achieve precise and untethered clinical therapeutics, microrobots have been widely
researched. However, because conventional microrobot actuation is based on magnetic …

A review of thermal impact of surface acoustic waves on microlitre droplets in medical applications

M Mehmood, UF Khan, AOM Maka… - Advances in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The surface acoustic waves (SAW) propagate inside the microdroplets resulting in kinetic
and thermal impacts. The kinetic drives fluid particles inside the droplet while thermal impact …

-matrix evaluation of three-dimensional acoustic radiation forces on nonspherical objects in Bessel beams with arbitrary order and location

Z Gong, PL Marston, W Li - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Acoustic radiation forces (ARFs) induced by a single Bessel beam with arbitrary order and
location on a nonspherical shape are studied using the T-matrix method (TMM) in three …

Acoustic interaction forces and torques acting on suspended spheres in an ideal fluid

JH Lopes, M Azarpeyvand… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the acoustic interaction forces and torques exerted by an arbitrary time-
harmonic wave on a set of N objects suspended in an inviscid fluid are theoretically …