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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advancements in ultrasound transducer: from material strategies to biomedical applications

SK Kirk - BME frontiers, 2022 - spj.science.org
Ultrasound is extensively studied for biomedical engineering applications. As the core part
of the ultrasonic system, the ultrasound transducer plays a significant role. For the purpose …

[HTML][HTML] In-vivo programmable acoustic manipulation of genetically engineered bacteria

Y Yang, Y Yang, D Liu, Y Wang, M Lu, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers can control target movement through the momentum interaction between
an acoustic wave and an object. This technology has advantages over optical tweezers for …

Magnetic–acoustic sequentially actuated CAR T cell microrobots for precision navigation and in situ antitumor immunoactivation

X Tang, Y Yang, M Zheng, T Yin, G Huang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite its clinical success, chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T)‐cell immunotherapy
remains limited in solid tumors, owing to the harsh physical barriers and …

Tissue engineering cartilage with deep zone cytoarchitecture by high‐resolution acoustic cell patterning

JPK Armstrong, E Pchelintseva… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ultimate objective of tissue engineering is to fabricate artificial living constructs with a
structural organization and function that faithfully resembles their native tissue counterparts …

[HTML][HTML] Three dimensional acoustic tweezers with vortex streaming

J Li, A Crivoi, X Peng, L Shen, Y Pu, Z Fan… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers use ultrasound for contact-free manipulation of particles from millimeter to
sub-micrometer scale. Particle trapping is usually associated with either radiation forces or …

3D acoustic manipulation of living cells and organisms based on 2D array

Y Yang, T Ma, Q Zhang, J Huang, Q Hu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible manipulation techniques for living cells and organisms are extremely useful tools for
fundamental biomedical and life science research. Acoustic tweezers, which permit non …

Bisymmetric coherent acoustic tweezers based on modulation of surface acoustic waves for dynamic and reconfigurable cluster manipulation of particles and cells

H Pan, D Mei, C Xu, S Han, Y Wang - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic tweezers based on surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have raised great interest in the
fields of tissue engineering, targeted therapy, and drug delivery. Generally, the complex …

Twisting linear to orbital angular momentum in an ultrasonic motor

J Liu, Z Li, Y Ding, A Chen, B Liang, J Yang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
An ultrasonic motor built with a contactless meta engine block (MEB) is designed and
experimentally demonstrated for twisting the linear momentum of sound emanating from a …

A multifunctional acoustic tweezer for heterogenous assembloids patterning

Z Gao, S Wang, Y Sui, Q Zhang, Y Yang… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic tweezers, capable of complicated manipulation of bioparticles by acoustic radiation
forces using a noninvasive and noncontact approach, are an innovative technology for …