Viscoelastic microfluidics: Progress and challenges

J Zhou, I Papautsky - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2020 - nature.com
The manipulation of cells and particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in microchannels
has drawn increasing attention, in part due to the ability for single-stream three-dimensional …

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 …

Ultra-fast, label-free isolation of circulating tumor cells from blood using spiral microfluidics

ME Warkiani, BL Khoo, L Wu, AKP Tay, AAS Bhagat… - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are rare cancer cells that are shed from primary or metastatic
tumors into the peripheral blood circulation. Phenotypic and genetic characterization of …

The Poisson distribution and beyond: methods for microfluidic droplet production and single cell encapsulation

DJ Collins, A Neild, A DeMello, AQ Liu, Y Ai - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
There is a recognized and growing need for rapid and efficient cell assays, where the size of
microfluidic devices lend themselves to the manipulation of cellular populations down to the …

Standardization of sample collection, isolation and analysis methods in extracellular vesicle research

KW Witwer, EI Buzás, LT Bemis, A Bora… - Journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of publications on extracellular RNA (exRNA) and extracellular vesicles
(EV) has highlighted the potential of these molecules and vehicles as biomarkers of disease …

Modular microfluidics for life sciences

J Wu, H Fang, J Zhang, S Yan - Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2023 - Springer
The advancement of microfluidics has enabled numerous discoveries and technologies in
life sciences. However, due to the lack of industry standards and configurability, the design …

Particle separation and sorting in microfluidic devices: a review

P Sajeesh, AK Sen - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2014 - Springer
Separation and sorting of micron-sized particles has great importance in diagnostics,
chemical and biological analyses, food and chemical processing and environmental …

Magnetic particle hyperthermia—a promising tumour therapy?

S Dutz, R Hergt - Nanotechnology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a critical review of the state of the art of magnetic particle hyperthermia (MPH) as
a minimal invasive tumour therapy. Magnetic principles of heating mechanisms are …

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 …