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 …

Fundamentals and application of magnetic particles in cell isolation and enrichment: a review

BD Plouffe, SK Murthy, LH Lewis - Reports on Progress in …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic sorting using magnetic beads has become a routine methodology for the
separation of key cell populations from biological suspensions. Due to the inherent ability of …

Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images

PY Chiou, AT Ohta, MC Wu - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
The ability to manipulate biological cells and micrometre-scale particles plays an important
role in many biological and colloidal science applications. However, conventional …

Separation of metallic from semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes

R Krupke, F Hennrich, H Löhneysen, MM Kappes - Science, 2003 - science.org
We have developed a method to separate metallic from semiconducting single-walled
carbon nanotubes from suspension using alternating current dielectrophoresis. Our method …

Blood-on-a-chip

M Toner, D Irimia - Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Accurate, fast, and affordable analysis of the cellular component of blood is of
prime interest for medicine and research. Yet, most often sample preparation procedures for …

Particle focusing in microfluidic devices

X Xuan, J Zhu, C Church - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2010 - Springer
Focusing particles (both biological and synthetic) into a tight stream is usually a necessary
step prior to counting, detecting, and sorting them. The various particle focusing approaches …

A review of microfabrication techniques and dielectrophoretic microdevices for particle manipulation and separation

M Li, WH Li, J Zhang, G Alici… - Journal of Physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices over the past decade has attracted
growing interest. LOC devices aim to achieve the miniaturization, integration, automation …

Dielectrophoresis for manipulation of micro/nano particles in microfluidic systems

C Zhang, K Khoshmanesh, A Mitchell… - Analytical and …, 2010 - Springer
Dielectrophoretic (DEP) force is exerted when a neutral particle is polarized in a non-uniform
electric field, and depends on the dielectric properties of the particle and the suspending …

The centrifugal microfluidic Bio-Disk platform

J Ducrée, S Haeberle, S Lutz, S Pausch… - Journal of …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews the centrifugal'Bio-Disk'platform which is based on rotationally
controlled, multi-scale liquid handling to fully integrate and automate complex analysis and …

Light at work: The use of optical forces for particle manipulation, sorting, and analysis

A Jonáš, P Zemanek - Electrophoresis, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We review the combinations of optical micro‐manipulation with other techniques and their
classical and emerging applications to non‐contact optical separation and sorting of micro …