Surface acoustic wave microfluidics

X Ding, P Li, SCS Lin, ZS Stratton, N Nama, F Guo… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent introduction of surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology onto lab-on-a-chip
platforms has opened a new frontier in microfluidics. The advantages provided by such SAW …

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 …

Revisiting lab-on-a-chip technology for drug discovery

P Neužil, S Giselbrecht, K Länge, TJ Huang… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2012 - nature.com
The field of microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip technology aims to improve and extend the
possibilities of bioassays, cell biology and biomedical research based on the idea of …

Acoustic tweezers: patterning cells and microparticles using standing surface acoustic waves (SSAW)

J Shi, D Ahmed, X Mao, SCS Lin, A Lawit, TJ Huang - Lab on a Chip, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we present an active patterning technique named “acoustic tweezers” that utilizes
standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW) to manipulate and pattern cells and microparticles …

Micromixing within microfluidic devices

L Capretto, W Cheng, M Hill, X Zhang - Microfluidics: technologies and …, 2011 - Springer
Micromixing is a crucial process within microfluidic systems such as micro total analysis
systems (μTAS). A state-of-art review on microstructured mixing devices and their mixing …

An acoustofluidic micromixer based on oscillating sidewall sharp-edges

PH Huang, Y Xie, D Ahmed, J Rufo, N Nama, Y Chen… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Rapid and homogeneous mixing inside a microfluidic channel is demonstrated via the
acoustic streaming phenomenon induced by the oscillation of sidewall sharp-edges. By …

Hydrodynamic mechanisms of cell and particle trapping in microfluidics

A Karimi, S Yazdi, AM Ardekani - Biomicrofluidics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Focusing and sorting cells and particles utilizing microfluidic phenomena have been
flourishing areas of development in recent years. These processes are largely beneficial in …

A millisecond micromixer via single-bubble-based acoustic streaming

D Ahmed, X Mao, J Shi, BK Juluri, TJ Huang - Lab on a Chip, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
We present ultra-fast homogeneous mixing inside a microfluidic channelvia single-bubble-
based acoustic streaming. The device operates by trapping an air bubble within a “horse …

Microfluidic hydrodynamic focusing for synthesis of nanomaterials

M Lu, A Ozcelik, CL Grigsby, Y Zhao, F Guo, KW Leong… - Nano Today, 2016 - Elsevier
Microfluidics expands the synthetic space such as heat transfer, mass transport, and reagent
consumption to conditions not easily achievable in conventional batch processes …

Sheathless inertial cell ordering for extreme throughput flow cytometry

SC Hur, HTK Tse, D Di Carlo - Lab on a Chip, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Rapid and accurate differentiation of cell types within a heterogeneous solution is a
challenging but important task for various applications in biological research and medicine …