Microfluidic devices for bioapplications

LY Yeo, HC Chang, PPY Chan, JR Friend - small, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Harnessing the ability to precisely and reproducibly actuate fluids and manipulate
bioparticles such as DNA, cells, and molecules at the microscale, microfluidics is a powerful …

On-chip micromanipulation and assembly of colloidal particles by electric fields

OD Velev, KH Bhatt - Soft Matter, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
We overview the ways in which electric fields can be used for on-chip manipulation and
assembly of colloidal particles. Particles suspended in water readily respond to alternating …

Dielectrophoresis-enhanced plasmonic sensing with gold nanohole arrays

A Barik, LM Otto, D Yoo, J Jose, TW Johnson… - Nano letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
We experimentally demonstrate dielectrophoretic concentration of biological analytes on the
surface of a gold nanohole array, which concurrently acts as a nanoplasmonic sensor and …

An integrated dielectrophoretic chip for continuous bioparticle filtering, focusing, sorting, trapping, and detecting

I Cheng, HC Chang, D Hou, HC Chang - Biomicrofluidics, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Multi-target pathogen detection using heterogeneous medical samples require continuous
filtering, sorting, and trapping of debris, bioparticles, and immunocolloids within a diagnostic …

Bisphenol a sensors on polyimide fabricated by laser direct writing for onsite river water monitoring at attomolar concentration

C Cheng, S Wang, J Wu, Y Yu, R Li, S Eda… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This work presents an aptamer-based, highly sensitive and specific sensor for atto-to
femtomolar level detection of bisphenol A (BPA). Because of its widespread use in …

AC electrothermal effect in microfluidics: A review

A Salari, M Navi, T Lijnse, C Dalton - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
The electrothermal effect has been investigated extensively in microfluidics since the 1990s
and has been suggested as a promising technique for fluid manipulations in lab-on-a-chip …

Advances in electrokinetics and their applications in micro/nano fluidics

C Zhao, C Yang - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2012 - Springer
Electrokinetic phenomena originally developed in colloid chemistry have drawn great
attention in micro-and nano-fluidic lab-on-a-chip systems for manipulation of both liquids …

Steering micromotors via reprogrammable optoelectronic paths

X Chen, X Chen, M Elsayed, H Edwards, J Liu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Steering micromotors is important for using them in practical applications and as model
systems for active matter. This functionality often requires magnetic materials in the …

Theoretical prediction of fast 3D AC electro-osmotic pumps

MZ Bazant, Y Ben - Lab on a Chip, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
AC electro-osmotic (ACEO) pumps in microfluidics currently involve planar electrode arrays,
but recent work on the underlying phenomenon of induced-charge electro-osmosis (ICEO) …

Coupling Between Precipitation and Contact-Line Dynamics:<? format?> Multiring Stains and Stick-Slip Motion

S Maheshwari, L Zhang, Y Zhu, HC Chang - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
The contact line in an evaporating drop can stay pinned to form a single ring or can shrink in
a discontinuous stepwise manner and generate multiple rings. We demonstrate the latter …