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 …

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 …

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 …

Tunable rigidity of (polymeric core)-(lipid shell) nanoparticles for regulated cellular uptake.

J Sun, L Zhang, J Wang, Q Feng, D Liu… - … (deerfield beach, fla.), 2014 - europepmc.org
Core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) with lipid shells and varying water content and rigidity but
with the same chemical composition, size, and surface properties are assembled using a …

Slanted spiral microfluidics for the ultra-fast, label-free isolation of circulating tumor cells

ME Warkiani, G Guan, KB Luan, WC Lee, AAS Bhagat… - Lab on a Chip, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The enumeration and characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTCs), found in the
peripheral blood of cancer patients, provide a potentially accessible source for cancer …

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 …

Microfluidics‐based biomaterials and biodevices

R Dong, Y Liu, L Mou, J Deng, X Jiang - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of microfluidics technology has promoted new innovations in
materials science, particularly by interacting with biological systems, based on precise …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting circulating tumor cells: current challenges and new trends

B Hong, Y Zu - Theranostics, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood stream play a critical role in establishing
metastases. The clinical value of CTCs as a biomarker for early cancer detection, diagnosis …