Recent advances in holographic 3D particle tracking

P Memmolo, L Miccio, M Paturzo, GD Caprio… - Advances in Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Particle tracking is a fundamental technique for investigating a variety of biophysical
processes, from intracellular dynamics to the characterization of cell motility and migration …

Holographic optical tweezers and their relevance to lab on chip devices

M Padgett, R Di Leonardo - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
During the last decade, optical tweezers have been transformed by the combined availability
of spatial light modulators and the speed of low-cost computing to drive them. Holographic …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidic viscometers for shear rheology of complex fluids and biofluids

S Gupta, WS Wang, SA Vanapalli - Biomicrofluidics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The rich diversity of man-made complex fluids and naturally occurring biofluids is opening
up new opportunities for investigating their flow behavior and characterizing their …

Droplet interfacial tensions and phase transitions measured in microfluidic channels

P Roy, S Liu, CS Dutcher - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Measurements of droplet phase and interfacial tension (IFT) are important in the fields of
atmospheric aerosols and emulsion science. Bulk macroscale property measurements with …

Single-cell metabolite analysis on a microfluidic chip

C Wang, W Hu, L Guan, X Yang, Q Liang - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Metabolites can directly reflect and modulate cell responses and phenotypical changes by
influencing energy balances, intercellular signals, and many other cellular functions …

[HTML][HTML] Particle manipulation by optical forces in microfluidic devices

P Paiè, T Zandrini, RM Vázquez, R Osellame… - Micromachines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Since the pioneering work of Ashkin and coworkers, back in 1970, optical manipulation
gained an increasing interest among the scientific community. Indeed, the advantages and …

A highly accurate and consistent microfluidic viscometer for continuous blood viscosity measurement

YJ Kang, SY Yoon, KH Lee, S Yang - Artificial organs, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A high‐precision microfluidic viscometer with a microfluidic channel array composed of 100
indicating channels is demonstrated in this study. The relative viscosity of the sample fluid …

Propulsion Mechanisms of Light‐Driven Plasmonic Colloidal Micromotors

J Frueh, S Rutkowski, T Si, M Gai, C Gao… - Advanced Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal micromotors are important candidates for a wide spectrum of applications, ranging
from medicine to environmental remediation. Thus far, the propulsion force determination …

Integrated microfluidic viscometer equipped with fluid temperature controller for measurement of viscosity in complex fluids

YJ Kang, S Yang - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2013 - Springer
In the study described herein, a microfluidic viscometer equipped with fluid temperature
controller is proposed for measuring the viscosity of complex liquids containing cells or …

Hydrodynamic couplings of colloidal ellipsoids diffusing in channels

Z Zheng, X Xu, Y Wang, Y Han - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The hydrodynamic interactions (HIs) of two colloidal spheres characterized by the translation–
translation (T–T) couplings have been studied under various confinements, but little is …