Inertial microfluidic physics

H Amini, W Lee, D Di Carlo - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics has experienced massive growth in the past two decades, and especially with
advances in rapid prototyping researchers have explored a multitude of channel structures …

Microfluidic technologies for cell deformability cytometry

H Chen, J Guo, F Bian, Y Zhao - Smart Medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic detection methods for cell deformability cytometry have been regarded as
powerful tools for single‐cell analysis of cellular mechanical phenotypes, thus having been …

Detection of human disease conditions by single-cell morpho-rheological phenotyping of blood

N Toepfner, C Herold, O Otto, P Rosendahl, A Jacobi… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
Blood is arguably the most important bodily fluid and its analysis provides crucial health
status information. A first routine measure to narrow down diagnosis in clinical practice is the …

Numerical simulation of real-time deformability cytometry to extract cell mechanical properties

M Mokbel, D Mokbel, A Mietke, N Traber… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The measurement of cell stiffness is an important part of biological research with diverse
applications in biology, biotechnology and medicine. Real-time deformability cytometry (RT …

Recent advances in deformation-assisted microfluidic cell sorting technologies

J Sun, X Huang, J Chen, R Xiang, X Ke, S Lin, W Xuan… - Analyst, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell sorting is an essential prerequisite for cell research and has great value in life science
and clinical studies. Among the many microfluidic cell sorting technologies, label-free …

Hybrid smoothed dissipative particle dynamics and immersed boundary method for simulation of red blood cells in flows

T Ye, N Phan-Thien, CT Lim, L Peng, H Shi - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
In biofluid flow systems, often the flow problems of fluids of complex structures, such as the
flow of red blood cells (RBCs) through complex capillary vessels, need to be considered …

A computational study of droplet-based bioprinting: Effects of viscoelasticity

M Nooranidoost, D Izbassarov, S Tasoglu… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Despite significant progress, cell viability continues to be a central issue in droplet-based
bioprinting applications. Common bioinks exhibit viscoelastic behavior owing to the …

Parallel modeling of cell suspension flow in complex micro-networks with inflow/outflow boundary conditions

G Li, T Ye, X Li - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
We proposed a parallel framework with inflow/outflow boundary conditions for particle-
based simulations of cell suspension flow through complex micro-networks that is often …

[HTML][HTML] Cell trapping in Y-junction microchannels: A numerical study of the bifurcation angle effect in inertial microfluidics

SJ Hymel, H Lan, H Fujioka, DB Khismatullin - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The majority of microfluidic technologies for cell sorting and isolation involve bifurcating (eg,
Y-or T-shaped junction) microchannels to trap the cells of a specific type. However, the …

Capillary micromechanics for core–shell particles

T Kong, L Wang, HM Wyss, HC Shum - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we have developed a facile, economical microfluidic approach as well as a
simple model description to measure and predict the mechanical properties of composite …