Acoustofluidics for biomedical applications

J Rufo, F Cai, J Friend, M Wiklund… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustofluidic technologies utilize acoustic waves to manipulate fluids and particles within
fluids, all in a contact-free and biocompatible manner. Over the past decade, acoustofluidic …

Acoustic tweezers for high-throughput single-cell analysis

S Yang, J Rufo, R Zhong, J Rich, Z Wang, LP Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers provide an effective means for manipulating single cells and particles in a
high-throughput, precise, selective and contact-free manner. The adoption of acoustic …

Harmonic acoustics for dynamic and selective particle manipulation

S Yang, Z Tian, Z Wang, J Rufo, P Li, J Mai, J Xia… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Precise and selective manipulation of colloids and biological cells has long been motivated
by applications in materials science, physics and the life sciences. Here we introduce our …

Acoustic tweezers for the life sciences

A Ozcelik, J Rufo, F Guo, Y Gu, P Li, J Lata, TJ Huang - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers are a versatile set of tools that use sound waves to manipulate
bioparticles ranging from nanometer-sized extracellular vesicles to millimeter-sized …

Micro/nanorobotic swarms: from fundamentals to functionalities

J Law, J Yu, W Tang, Z Gong, X Wang, Y Sun - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Swarms, which stem from collective behaviors among individual elements, are commonly
seen in nature. Since two decades ago, scientists have been attempting to understand the …

Raman microspectroscopy for microbiology

KS Lee, Z Landry, FC Pereira, M Wagner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Raman microspectroscopy offers microbiologists a rapid and non-destructive technique to
assess the chemical composition of individual live microorganisms in near real time. In this …

Acoustofluidic separation of cells and particles

M Wu, A Ozcelik, J Rufo, Z Wang, R Fang… - Microsystems & …, 2019 - nature.com
Acoustofluidics, the integration of acoustics and microfluidics, is a rapidly growing research
field that is addressing challenges in biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and …

The 2019 surface acoustic waves roadmap

P Delsing, AN Cleland, MJA Schuetz… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Today, surface acoustic waves (SAWs) and bulk acoustic waves are already two of the very
few phononic technologies of industrial relevance and can been found in a myriad of …

Acoustic microfluidics

P Zhang, H Bachman, A Ozcelik… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Acoustic microfluidic devices are powerful tools that use sound waves to manipulate micro-
or nanoscale objects or fluids in analytical chemistry and biomedicine. Their simple device …

Biomolecular actuators for genetically selective acoustic manipulation of cells

D Wu, D Baresch, C Cook, Z Ma, M Duan… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The ability to physically manipulate specific cells is critical for the fields of biomedicine,
synthetic biology, and living materials. Ultrasound has the ability to manipulate cells with …