Advances in technical assessment of spiral inertial microfluidic devices toward bioparticle separation and profiling: A critical review

M Bagi, F Amjad, SM Ghoreishian… - BioChip Journal, 2024 - Springer
Separation of micro-and nano-sized bioparticles is essential for efficient diagnostics,
chemical and biological analyses, drug development, food and chemical processing, and …

An updated review on particle separation in passive microfluidic devices

M Bayareh - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
Particle separation has been extensively studied in recent years in a wide range of sciences,
especially in the field of medicine and biotechnology. On the other hand, the topic has been …

Geometric structure design of passive label-free microfluidic systems for biological micro-object separation

H Tang, J Niu, H Jin, S Lin, D Cui - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2022 - nature.com
Passive and label-free microfluidic devices have no complex external accessories or
detection-interfering label particles. These devices are now widely used in medical and …

The revolution of PDMS microfluidics in cellular biology

S Banik, A Uchil, T Kalsang, S Chakrabarty… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Microfluidics is revolutionizing the way research on cellular biology has been traditionally
conducted. The ability to control the cell physicochemical environment by adjusting flow …

Microfluidic magnetic mixing at low reynolds numbers and in stagnant fluids

ES Shanko, Y van de Burgt, PD Anderson… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic mixing becomes a necessity when thorough sample homogenization is required
in small volumes of fluid, such as in lab-on-a-chip devices. For example, efficient mixing is …

Inertial separation of particles assisted by symmetrical sheath flows in a straight microchannel

T Zhang, DW Inglis, L Ngo, Y Wang… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past two decades, inertial microfluidics, which works at an intermediate range of
Reynolds number (∼ 1< Re<∼ 100), has been widely used for particle separation due to its …

Rapid separation of bacteria from primary nasal samples using inertial microfluidics

J Shrestha, SR Bazaz, L Ding, S Vasilescu, S Idrees… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial populations play a crucial role in human health and the development of many
diseases. These diseases often arise from the explosive proliferation of opportunistic …

Investigation on a cascaded inertial and acoustic microfluidic device for sheathless and label-free separation of circulating tumor cells

T Peng, J Qiang, S Yuan - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
High-precision and high-purity acquisition of tumor cells from whole blood is vital for early
disease detection and diagnosis. Here, we investigated a cascaded inertial and acoustic …

Numerical simulation of inertial microfluidics: a review

R Shi - Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Since the proposal of inertial microfluidics in 2007, it has been widely used for particle
focusing and separation with superior performances. The particle migration behaviour in …

A bioinspired, passive microfluidic lobe filtration system

AS Clark, A San-Miguel - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Size-based microfluidic filtration systems can be affected by clogging, which prevents their
use in high-throughput and continuous applications. To address these concerns, we have …