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 …

Computational inertial microfluidics: a review

SR Bazaz, A Mashhadian, A Ehsani, SC Saha… - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Since the discovery of inertial focusing in 1961, numerous theories have been put forward to
explain the migration of particles in inertial flows, but a complete understanding is still …

Particles focusing and separation by a novel inertial microfluidic device: Divergent serpentine microchannel

A Amani, A Shamloo, P Vatani… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microfluidic experiments have found wide applications in medical sciences and engineering,
such as cell separation and focusing. In the present study, focusing and separation of …

A plasmonic gold nanofilm-based microfluidic chip for rapid and inexpensive droplet-based photonic PCR

A Jalili, M Bagheri, A Shamloo… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a powerful tool for nucleic acid amplification and
quantification. However, long thermocycling time is a major limitation of the commercial PCR …

Recent developments in inertial and centrifugal microfluidic systems along with the involved forces for cancer cell separation: a review

A Farahinia, W Zhang, I Badea - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The treatment of cancers is a significant challenge in the healthcare context today.
Spreading circulating tumor cells (CTCs) throughout the body will eventually lead to cancer …

Investigation of a two‐step device implementing magnetophoresis and dielectrophoresis for separation of circulating tumor cells from blood cells

A Shamloo, A Yazdani… - Engineering in life …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying tumor cells from a pool of other cells has always been an appealing topic for
different purposes. The objective of this study is to discriminate circulating tumor cells …

Inertial microfluidics: A method for fast prediction of focusing pattern of particles in the cross section of the channel

A Mashhadian, A Shamloo - Analytica chimica acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Inertial microfluidics is utilized as a powerful passive method for particle and cell
manipulation, which uses the hydrodynamic forces of the fluid in the channel to focus …

Design of two inertial-based microfluidic devices for cancer cell separation from blood: A serpentine inertial device and an integrated inertial and magnetophoretic …

R Nasiri, A Shamloo, J Akbari - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The separation of cancer cells from a heterogeneous biological sample such as blood plays
a vital role in cancer study and future treatments. In this paper, we designed and …

Mathematical modeling and computational analysis of centrifugal microfluidic platforms: a review

M Madadelahi, LF Acosta-Soto, S Hosseini… - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Centrifugal microfluidic platforms or lab-on-discs (LODs) have evolved into a popular
technology for automating chemical and biological assays. LODs today enable scientists to …

[HTML][HTML] A numerical study of Elasto-inertial particle-focusing in straight and serpentine microchannels

M Nouri, P Parvizian, A Nikookalam, S Seifi… - Results in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microfluidic devices have gained popularity in recent years due to their low cost and
simplicity. Cell focusing linked with cell counting and cell separation used in clinical tests …