Acoustofluidics for biomedical applications

J Rufo, F Cai, J Friend, M Wiklund… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustofluidic technologies utilize acoustic waves to manipulate fluids and particles within
fluids, all in a contact-free and biocompatible manner. Over the past decade, acoustofluidic …

[HTML][HTML] Inverse design of phononic meta-structured materials

HW Dong, C Shen, Z Liu, SD Zhao, Z Ren, CX Liu… - Materials Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Flexible manipulation of elastic and acoustic waves through phononic meta-structured
materials (PMSMs) has attracted a lot of attention in the last three decades and shows a …

Controllable fusion of human brain organoids using acoustofluidics

Z Ao, H Cai, Z Wu, J Ott, H Wang, K Mackie, F Guo - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The fusion of human organoids holds promising potential in modeling physiological and
pathological processes of tissue genesis and organogenesis. However, current fused …

Unconventional acoustic approaches for localized and designed micromanipulation

K Kolesnik, M Xu, PVS Lee, V Rajagopal, DJ Collins - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic fields are ideal for micromanipulation, being biocompatible and with force gradients
approaching the scale of single cells. They have accordingly found use in a variety of …

Programmable photoacoustic patterning of microparticles in air

R Zhang, X Zhao, J Li, D Zhou, H Guo, Z Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical and acoustic tweezers, despite operating on different physical principles, offer non-
contact manipulation of microscopic and mesoscopic objects, making them essential in …

Acoustic tweezer with complex boundary-free trapping and transport channel controlled by shadow waveguides

J Li, C Shen, TJ Huang, SA Cummer - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Acoustic tweezers use ultrasound for contact-free, bio-compatible, and precise manipulation
of particles from millimeter to submicrometer scale. In microfluidics, acoustic tweezers …

Acoustofluidic assembly of primary tumor-derived organotypic cell clusters for rapid evaluation of cancer immunotherapy

Z Wu, Z Ao, H Cai, X Li, B Chen, H Tu, Y Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Cancer immunotherapy shows promising potential for treating breast cancer. While patients
may have heterogeneous treatment responses for adjuvant therapy, it is challenging to …

Phononic crystal-induced standing Lamb wave for the translation of subwavelength microparticles

L Huang, F Li, F Cai, L Meng, W Zhou, D Kong… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Phononic crystals (PCs) can modulate an incident acoustic wave to provide subwavelength
microparticles with stable and flexible manipulation. However, fixed artificial structures of the …

[HTML][HTML] Design of interdigitated transducers for acoustofluidic applications

S Song, Q Wang, J Zhou, A Riaud - Nanotechnology and Precision …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Interdigitated transducers (IDTs) were originally designed as delay lines for radars. Half a
century later, they have found new life as actuators for microfluidic systems. By generating …

[HTML][HTML] Remote control of the recruitment and capture of endogenous stem cells by ultrasound for in situ repair of bone defects

Y He, F Li, P Jiang, F Cai, Q Lin, M Zhou, H Liu, F Yan - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Stem cell-based tissue engineering has provided a promising platform for repairing of bone
defects. However, the use of exogenous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) …