Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are the guided waves that propagate along the top surface
of a material with wave vectors orthogonal to the normal direction to the surface. Based on …

Blood tests are considered as standard clinical procedures to screen for markers of diseases
and health conditions. However, the complex cellular background (> 99.9% RBCs) and …

Inertial microfluidics has gained significant attention since first being proposed in 2007
owing to the advantages of simplicity, high throughput, precise manipulation, and freedom …

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 …

Cell separation is a key step in many biomedical research areas including biotechnology,
cancer research, regenerative medicine, and drug discovery. While conventional cell sorting …

The selection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) directly from blood as a real-time liquid
biopsy has received increasing attention over the past ten years, and further analysis of …

Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

Novel approaches, combining technology, biomaterial design, and cutting-edge cell culture,
have been increasingly considered to advance the field of tissue engineering and …

Acoustic actuation techniques offer a promising tool for contactless manipulation of both
synthetic and biological micro/nano agents that encompass different length scales. The …

Effective and high-throughput cell sorting are critical technologies in single cell analysis in
biology, medicine and clinical applications. Especially for single cell analysis requiring high …