Biomechanical properties of red blood cells in health and disease towards microfluidics

G Tomaiuolo - Biomicrofluidics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Red blood cells (RBCs) possess a unique capacity for undergoing cellular deformation to
navigate across various human microcirculation vessels, enabling them to pass through …

Comparing acoustic and optical forces for biomedical research

K Dholakia, BW Drinkwater, M Ritsch-Marte - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
The application of acoustic and optical waves to exert non-contact forces on microscopic
and mesoscopic objects has grown considerably in importance in the past few decades …

Continuous micro-vortex-based nanoparticle manipulation via focused surface acoustic waves

DJ Collins, Z Ma, J Han, Y Ai - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite increasing demand in the manipulation of nanoscale objects for next generation
biological and industrial processes, there is a lack of methods for reliable separation …

Acoustic tweezers via sub–time-of-flight regime surface acoustic waves

DJ Collins, C Devendran, Z Ma, JW Ng, A Neild… - Science advances, 2016 - science.org
Micrometer-scale acoustic waves are highly useful for refined optomechanical and
acoustofluidic manipulation, where these fields are spatially localized along the transducer …

Joint subarray acoustic tweezers enable controllable cell translation, rotation, and deformation

L Shen, Z Tian, K Yang, J Rich, J Xia, N Upreti… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contactless microscale tweezers are highly effective tools for manipulating, patterning, and
assembling bioparticles. However, current tweezers are limited in their ability to …

An acoustofluidic device for the automated separation of platelet-reduced plasma from whole blood

Z Ma, J Xia, N Upreti, E David, J Rufo, Y Gu… - Microsystems & …, 2024 - nature.com
Separating plasma from whole blood is an important sample processing technique required
for fundamental biomedical research, medical diagnostics, and therapeutic applications …

Selective particle and cell capture in a continuous flow using micro-vortex acoustic streaming

DJ Collins, BL Khoo, Z Ma, A Winkler, R Weser… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic streaming has emerged as a promising technique for refined microscale
manipulation, where strong rotational flow can give rise to particle and cell capture. In …

Detachable acoustofluidic system for particle separation via a traveling surface acoustic wave

Z Ma, DJ Collins, Y Ai - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Components in biomedical analysis tools that have direct contact with biological samples,
especially biohazardous materials, are ideally discarded after use to prevent cross …

Numerical simulation of acoustofluidic manipulation by radiation forces and acoustic streaming for complex particles

P Hahn, I Leibacher, T Baasch, J Dual - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The numerical prediction of acoustofluidic particle motion is of great help for the design, the
analysis, and the physical understanding of acoustofluidic devices as it allows for a simple …

Persistent red blood cells retain their ability to move in microcapillaries under high levels of oxidative stress

NA Besedina, EA Skverchinskaya, SV Shmakov… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Oxidative stress is one of the key factors that leads to red blood cells (RBCs) aging, and
impairs their biomechanics and oxygen delivery. It occurs during numerous pathological …