Recently, piezoelectric thin films including zinc oxide (ZnO) and aluminium nitride (AlN)
have found a broad range of lab-on-chip applications such as biosensing, particle/cell …

Recent developments on the preparation and application of ZnO films for acoustic wave-
based microfluidics and biosensors are reviewed in this paper. High quality and strongly …

Acoustofluidics offers contact-free manipulation of particles and fluids, enabling their uses in
various life sciences, such as for biological and medical applications. Recently, there have …

Manipulation of microscale particles and fluid liquid droplets is an important task for lab-on-a-
chip devices for numerous biological researches and applications, such as cell detection …

Conventional techniques for enzyme immobilization suffer from suboptimal activity recovery
due to insufficient enzyme loading and inadequate stability. Furthermore, these techniques …

This work uses a finite volume method to investigate three-dimensional acoustic streaming
patterns produced by surface acoustic wave (SAW) propagation within microdroplets. A …

Acoustophoresis with its simple and low-cost fabrication, rapid and localized fluid actuation,
compatibility with microfluidic components, and biocompatibility for cellular studies, has …

On a solid surface, a droplet of liquid will stick due to the capillary adhesion, and this causes
low droplet mobility. To reduce contact line pinning, surface chemistry can be coupled to …

Hummingbird tongues pick up a liquid, calorie-dense food that cannot be grasped, a
physical challenge that has long inspired the study of nectar-transport mechanics. Existing …

Lab-on-PCB devices have been developed for many biomedical and biochemical
applications. However, much work has to be done towards commercial applications. Even …