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 …

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 …

3D printing of inertial microfluidic devices

S Razavi Bazaz, O Rouhi, MA Raoufi, F Ejeian… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Inertial microfluidics has been broadly investigated, resulting in the development of various
applications, mainly for particle or cell separation. Lateral migrations of these particles within …

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 …

Fundamentals of inertial focusing in microchannels

J Zhou, I Papautsky - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Inertial microfluidics has been attracting considerable interest in recent years due to
immensely promising applications in cell biology. Despite the intense attention, the primary …

Spiral microchannel with rectangular and trapezoidal cross-sections for size based particle separation

G Guan, L Wu, AA Bhagat, Z Li, PCY Chen, S Chao… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
The paper reports a new method for three-dimensional observation of the location of
focused particle streams along both the depth and width of the channel cross-section in …

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 …

High-yield cell ordering and deterministic cell-in-droplet encapsulation using Dean flow in a curved microchannel

EWM Kemna, RM Schoeman, F Wolbers, I Vermes… - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
In this article high-yield (77%) and high-speed (2700 cells s− 1) single cell droplet
encapsulation is described using a Dean-coupled inertial ordering of cells in a simple …