Viscoelastic microfluidics: Progress and challenges

J Zhou, I Papautsky - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2020 - nature.com
The manipulation of cells and particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in microchannels
has drawn increasing attention, in part due to the ability for single-stream three-dimensional …

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 …

Field-free isolation of exosomes from extracellular vesicles by microfluidic viscoelastic flows

C Liu, J Guo, F Tian, N Yang, F Yan, Y Ding, JY Wei… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exosomes, molecular cargos secreted by almost all mammalian cells, are considered as
promising biomarkers to identify many diseases including cancers. However, the small size …

Recent progress of particle migration in viscoelastic fluids

D Yuan, Q Zhao, S Yan, SY Tang, G Alici, J Zhang… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, research on particle migration in non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluids has gained
considerable attention. In a viscoelastic fluid, three dimensional (3D) particle focusing can …

Particle manipulations in non-Newtonian microfluidics: A review

X Lu, C Liu, G Hu, X Xuan - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2017 - Elsevier
Microfluidic devices have been widely used since 1990s for diverse manipulations of
particles (a general term of beads, cells, vesicles, drops, etc.) in a variety of applications …

Size-Tunable Elasto-Inertial Sorting of Haematococcus pluvialis in the Ultrastretchable Microchannel

Z Jia, J Wu, X Wu, Q Yuan, Y Chan, B Liu… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Haematococcus pluvialis is a good source of astaxanthin, which reduces oxidation in the
human body, treats inflammation, and slows the growth of breast and skin cancer cells …

Preparation and characterization of extracellular vesicles

S Tiwari, V Kumar, S Randhawa… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are heterogeneous membranous vesicles secreted by every cell
type and offer significant potential in therapy and diagnostics. Differential ultracentrifugation …

Particle migration due to viscoelasticity of the suspending liquid and its relevance in microfluidic devices

G D'Avino, F Greco, PL Maffettone - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The fast growth of microfluidic applications based on complex fluids is a result of the unique
fluid dynamics of these systems, enabling the creation of devices for health care or …

[HTML][HTML] Novel microfluidic approaches to circulating tumor cell separation and sorting of blood cells: A review

A Farahinia, WJ Zhang, I Badea - Journal of Science: Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
The separation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that originate from tumor or cancer tissue
plays an important role in cancer diagnostics, progression analyses, and treatment …

Recent progress in isolation and detection of extracellular vesicles for cancer diagnostics

W Wang, J Luo, S Wang - Advanced healthcare materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as one of the many new and promising
biomarkers for liquid biopsy of cancer due to their loading capability of some specific …