Ultra-high-frequency (UHF) surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) microfluidics and biosensors

M Agostini, M Cecchini - Nanotechnology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have the potential to become the basis for a wide gamut of
lab-on-a-chips (LoCs). These mechanical waves are among the most promising physics that …

Current trends on surface acoustic wave biosensors

SI Zida, YD Lin, YL Khung - Advanced Materials Technologies, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of rapid biosensing platforms is an integral part for the detection of many
diseases, as well as important clinical biomarkers. So far, many new biosensing …

Surface‐acoustic‐wave (SAW) induced mixing enhances the detection of viruses: application to measles sensing in whole human saliva with a SAW lab‐on‐a‐chip

M Agostini, F Lunardelli, M Gagliardi… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Measles is one of the most infectious airborne viruses worldwide. With a basic reproduction
rate between 12–18, this virus is six times more infectious than the SARS‐CoV‐2 Alpha …

[HTML][HTML] Methodologies, technologies, and strategies for acoustic streaming-based acoustofluidics

M Stringer, Z Zeng, X Zhang, Y Chai, W Li… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustofluidics offers contact-free manipulation of particles and fluids, enabling their uses in
various life sciences, such as for biological and medical applications. Recently, there have …

Glial-fibrillary-acidic-protein (GFAP) biomarker detection in serum-matrix: Functionalization strategies and detection by an ultra-high-frequency surface-acoustic-wave …

M Agostini, F Amato, ML Vieri, G Greco… - Biosensors and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Glial-fibrillary-acidic-protein (GFAP) has recently drawn significant attention from
the clinical environment as a promising biomarker. The pathologies which can be linked to …

[HTML][HTML] An aptamer-based shear horizontal surface acoustic wave biosensor with a CVD-grown single-layered graphene film for high-sensitivity detection of a label …

J Ji, Y Pang, D Li, Z Huang, Z Zhang, N Xue… - Microsystems & …, 2020 - nature.com
The thickness of the sensitive layer has an important influence on the sensitivity of a shear
horizontal surface acoustic wave (SH-SAW) biosensor with a delay-line structure and lower …

Full-SAW microfluidics-based lab-on-a-chip for biosensing

M Agostini, G Greco, M Cecchini - Ieee Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many approaches to diagnostic testing remain decades old. Well-established biosensing
technologies (eg, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and radio-immunoassays) typically …

[HTML][HTML] Novel SH-SAW biosensors for ultra-fast recognition of growth factors

D Matatagui, Á Bastida, MC Horrillo - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this study, we investigated a label-free time efficient biosensor to recognize growth factors
(GF) in real time, which are of gran interesting in the regulation of cell division and tissue …

Ultra-high-frequency Love surface acoustic wave device for real-time sensing applications

G Greco, M Agostini, M Cecchini - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Love surface acoustic wave (L-SAW) devices are ideal for real-time sensing applications.
High miniaturization and sensitivity are desirable in particular for point of care diagnostics or …

A review of thermal impact of surface acoustic waves on microlitre droplets in medical applications

M Mehmood, UF Khan, AOM Maka… - Advances in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The surface acoustic waves (SAW) propagate inside the microdroplets resulting in kinetic
and thermal impacts. The kinetic drives fluid particles inside the droplet while thermal impact …