Fundamentals and applications of inertial microfluidics: A review

J Zhang, S Yan, D Yuan, G Alici, NT Nguyen… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last decade, inertial microfluidics has attracted significant attention and a wide variety
of channel designs that focus, concentrate and separate particles and fluids have been …

Channel innovations for inertial microfluidics

W Tang, S Zhu, D Jiang, L Zhu, J Yang, N Xiang - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Inertial microfluidics has gained significant attention since first being proposed in 2007
owing to the advantages of simplicity, high throughput, precise manipulation, and freedom …

Microfluidic cell sorting: a review of the advances in the separation of cells from debulking to rare cell isolation

CW Shields Iv, CD Reyes, GP López - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Accurate and high throughput cell sorting is a critical enabling technology in molecular and
cellular biology, biotechnology, and medicine. While conventional methods can provide high …

Inertial microfluidics: current status, challenges, and future opportunities

N Xiang, Z Ni - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Inertial microfluidics uses the hydrodynamic effects induced at finite Reynolds numbers to
achieve passive manipulation of particles, cells, or fluids and offers the advantages of high …

3D printing of inertial microfluidic devices

S Razavi Bazaz, O Rouhi, MA Raoufi, F Ejeian… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Inertial microfluidics has been broadly investigated, resulting in the development of various
applications, mainly for particle or cell separation. Lateral migrations of these particles within …

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 …

Inertial focusing in microfluidics

JM Martel, M Toner - Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2014 - annualreviews.org
When Segré and Silberberg in 1961 witnessed particles in a laminar pipe flow congregating
at an annulus in the pipe, scientists were perplexed and spent decades learning why such …

Cell separation using tilted-angle standing surface acoustic waves

X Ding, Z Peng, SCS Lin, M Geri, S Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Separation of cells is a critical process for studying cell properties, disease diagnostics, and
therapeutics. Cell sorting by acoustic waves offers a means to separate cells on the basis of …

Microfluidic‐based approaches in targeted cell/particle separation based on physical properties: fundamentals and applications

R Nasiri, A Shamloo, S Ahadian, L Amirifar, J Akbari… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cell separation is a key step in many biomedical research areas including biotechnology,
cancer research, regenerative medicine, and drug discovery. While conventional cell sorting …

Label-free isolation of exosomes using microfluidic technologies

S Hassanpour Tamrin, A Sanati Nezhad, A Sen - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are cell-derived structures packaged with lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They
exist in diverse bodily fluids and are involved in physiological and pathological processes …