Acoustofluidics for biomedical applications

J Rufo, F Cai, J Friend, M Wiklund… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustofluidic technologies utilize acoustic waves to manipulate fluids and particles within
fluids, all in a contact-free and biocompatible manner. Over the past decade, acoustofluidic …

Orbital angular momentum waves: Generation, detection, and emerging applications

R Chen, H Zhou, M Moretti, X Wang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has aroused a widespread interest in many fields,
especially in telecommunications due to its potential for unleashing new capacity in the …

[HTML][HTML] Holographic acoustic elements for manipulation of levitated objects

A Marzo, SA Seah, BW Drinkwater, DR Sahoo… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Sound can levitate objects of different sizes and materials through air, water and tissue. This
allows us to manipulate cells, liquids, compounds or living things without touching or …

Observation of a single-beam gradient force acoustical trap for elastic particles: acoustical tweezers

D Baresch, JL Thomas, R Marchiano - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We demonstrate the trapping of elastic particles by the large gradient force of a single
acoustical beam in three dimensions. Acoustical tweezers can push, pull and accurately …

Continuous micro-vortex-based nanoparticle manipulation via focused surface acoustic waves

DJ Collins, Z Ma, J Han, Y Ai - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite increasing demand in the manipulation of nanoscale objects for next generation
biological and industrial processes, there is a lack of methods for reliable separation …

Contactless acoustic micro/nano manipulation: a paradigm for next generation applications in life sciences

S Mohanty, ISM Khalil, S Misra - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Acoustic actuation techniques offer a promising tool for contactless manipulation of both
synthetic and biological micro/nano agents that encompass different length scales. The …

Acoustic tweezers

L Meng, F Cai, F Li, W Zhou, L Niu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Acoustic tweezers are gaining increasing attention as a noncontact method that is capable
of handling microparticles and nanoparticles in a controllable manner. By designing the …

[HTML][HTML] Independent trapping and manipulation of microparticles using dexterous acoustic tweezers

CRP Courtney, CEM Demore, H Wu… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
An electronically controlled acoustic tweezer was used to demonstrate two acoustic
manipulation phenomena: superposition of Bessel functions to allow independent …

High-throughput acoustic separation of platelets from whole blood

Y Chen, M Wu, L Ren, J Liu, PH Whitley, L Wang… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Platelets contain growth factors which are important in biomedical and clinical applications.
In this work, we present an acoustic separation device for high-throughput, non-invasive …

Broadband and stable acoustic vortex emitter with multi-arm coiling slits

X Jiang, J Zhao, S Liu, B Liang, X Zou, J Yang… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We present the analytical design and experimental realization of a scheme based on multi-
arm coiling slits to generate the stable acoustic vortices in a broadband. The proposed …