Optoelectronic tweezers: a versatile toolbox for nano-/micro-manipulation

S Zhang, B Xu, M Elsayed, F Nan, W Liang… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Advances towards programmable droplet transport on solid surfaces and its applications

R Malinowski, IP Parkin, G Volpe - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplets moving on solid surfaces are at the heart of many phenomena of fundamental and
applied interest in chemistry, physics and materials science. On the fundamental side, as …

Water-solid triboelectric nanogenerators: An alternative means for harvesting hydropower

D Jiang, M Xu, M Dong, F Guo, X Liu, G Chen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydropower is an important renewable resource, and is derived from the energy of falling,
fast-running, and/or oscillating motions of water, including rainfall, tidal currents, waves, and …

Advances in triboelectric nanogenerator powered electrowetting-on-dielectric devices: Mechanism, structures, and applications

J Tan, S Sun, D Jiang, M Xu, X Chen, Y Song, ZL Wang - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) phenomenon is widely employed for liquid
actuation at the micro scale. Due to its simple structure, low cost, low power consumption …

Combining sensors and actuators with electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD): advanced digital microfluidic systems for biomedical applications

Z Tong, C Shen, Q Li, H Yin, H Mao - Analyst, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The concept of digital microfluidics (DMF) enables highly flexible and precise droplet
manipulation at a picoliter scale, making DMF a promising approach to realize integrated …

A transparent electrowetting-on-dielectric device driven by triboelectric nanogenerator for extremely fast anti-fogging

J Tan, P Tian, M Sun, H Wang, N Sun, G Chen, Y Song… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Fogging widely occurs in industrial processes, surgical treatment, and human daily lives.
Due to the reduction in transmittance, fogging induces adverse effects or even disaster …

A review of optoelectrowetting (OEW): from fundamentals to lab-on-a-smartphone (LOS) applications to environmental sensors

SK Thio, SY Park - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) has been extensively explored as an active-type
technology for small-scale liquid handling due to its several unique advantages, including …

Lab on a smartphone (LOS): A smartphone-integrated, plasmonic-enhanced optoelectrowetting (OEW) platform for on-chip water quality monitoring through LAMP …

SK Thio, SW Bae, SY Park - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a low-cost lab-on-a-smartphone (LOS) platform for rapid and in-situ monitoring
of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) to examine the presence …

Effects of magnetic nanoparticles on mixing in droplet-based microfluidics

MA Maleki, M Soltani, N Kashaninejad, NT Nguyen - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
High-throughput, rapid and homogeneous mixing of microdroplets in a small length scale
such as that in a microchannel is of great importance for lab-on-a-chip applications. Various …

A droplet energy harvesting and actuation system for self-powered digital microfluidics

G Chen, X Liu, S Li, M Dong, D Jiang - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
When a water droplet slides down a hydrophobic surface, a major energy it possesses is
kinetic energy. However, people may ignore another important energy source …