Fundamentals and applications of inertial microfluidics: A review

J Zhang, S Yan, D Yuan, G Alici, NT Nguyen… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last decade, inertial microfluidics has attracted significant attention and a wide variety
of channel designs that focus, concentrate and separate particles and fluids have been …

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 …

A review of sorting, separation and isolation of cells and microbeads for biomedical applications: microfluidic approaches

A Dalili, E Samiei, M Hoorfar - Analyst, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Several biomedical analyses are performed on particular types of cells present in body
samples or using functionalized microparticles. Success in such analyses depends on the …

Inertial microfluidics: current status, challenges, and future opportunities

N Xiang, Z Ni - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inertial microfluidics uses the hydrodynamic effects induced at finite Reynolds numbers to
achieve passive manipulation of particles, cells, or fluids and offers the advantages of high …

Inertial microfluidic physics

H Amini, W Lee, D Di Carlo - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics has experienced massive growth in the past two decades, and especially with
advances in rapid prototyping researchers have explored a multitude of channel structures …

Inertial focusing in microfluidics

JM Martel, M Toner - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2014 - annualreviews.org
When Segré and Silberberg in 1961 witnessed particles in a laminar pipe flow congregating
at an annulus in the pipe, scientists were perplexed and spent decades learning why such …

High-throughput imaging flow cytometry by optofluidic time-stretch microscopy

C Lei, H Kobayashi, Y Wu, M Li, A Isozaki… - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
The ability to rapidly assay morphological and intracellular molecular variations within large
heterogeneous populations of cells is essential for understanding and exploiting cellular …

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 …

Inertial particle separation by differential equilibrium positions in a symmetrical serpentine micro-channel

J Zhang, S Yan, R Sluyter, W Li, G Alici, NT Nguyen - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
This paper presents an inertial microfluidic device with a simple serpentine micro-channel to
continuously separate particles with high performance. Separation of micro/nano-particles …

Inertial focusing of spherical particles in rectangular microchannels over a wide range of Reynolds numbers

C Liu, G Hu, X Jiang, J Sun - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Inertial microfluidics has emerged as an important tool for manipulating particles and cells.
For a better design of inertial microfluidic devices, we conduct 3D direct numerical …