Joint subarray acoustic tweezers enable controllable cell translation, rotation, and deformation

L Shen, Z Tian, K Yang, J Rich, J Xia, N Upreti… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contactless microscale tweezers are highly effective tools for manipulating, patterning, and
assembling bioparticles. However, current tweezers are limited in their ability to …

An acoustofluidic device for the automated separation of platelet-reduced plasma from whole blood

Z Ma, J Xia, N Upreti, E David, J Rufo, Y Gu… - Microsystems & …, 2024 - nature.com
Separating plasma from whole blood is an important sample processing technique required
for fundamental biomedical research, medical diagnostics, and therapeutic applications …

Sound innovations for biofabrication and tissue engineering

M Wu, Z Ma, Z Tian, JT Rich, X He, J Xia, Y He… - Microsystems & …, 2024 - nature.com
Advanced biofabrication techniques can create tissue-like constructs that can be applied for
reconstructive surgery or as in vitro three-dimensional (3D) models for disease modeling …

Acoustofluidic virus isolation via bessel beam excitation separation technology

J Xia, Z Wang, R Becker, F Li, F Wei, S Yang, J Rich… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The isolation of viruses from complex biological samples is essential for creating sensitive
bioassays that assess the efficacy and safety of viral therapeutics and vaccines, which have …

Acoustofluidic-based therapeutic apheresis system

M Wu, Z Ma, X Xu, B Lu, Y Gu, J Yoon, J Xia… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Therapeutic apheresis aims to selectively remove pathogenic substances, such as
antibodies that trigger various symptoms and diseases. Unfortunately, current apheresis …

Capillary-based, multifunctional manipulation of particles and fluids via focused surface acoustic waves

Z Pei, Z Tian, S Yang, L Shen, N Hao… - Journal of Physics D …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Surface acoustic wave (SAW)-enabled acoustofluidic technologies have recently attracted
increasing attention for applications in biology, chemistry, biophysics, and medicine. Most …

An acoustofluidic picoinjector

T Naquin, S Jain, J Zhang, X Xu, G Yao… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Droplet microfluidics has emerged as a valuable technology for a multitude of chemical and
biomedical applications, offering the capability to create independent microenvironments for …

Acoustofluidic scanning fluorescence nanoscopy with a large field of view

G Jin, N Upreti, J Rich, J Xia, C Zhao… - Microsystems & …, 2024 - nature.com
Large-field nanoscale fluorescence imaging is invaluable for many applications, such as
imaging subcellular structures, visualizing protein interactions, and high-resolution tissue …