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 …

Nanomaterial patterning in 3D printing

B Elder, R Neupane, E Tokita, U Ghosh… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The synergistic integration of nanomaterials with 3D printing technologies can enable the
creation of architecture and devices with an unprecedented level of functional integration. In …

Holograms for acoustics

K Melde, AG Mark, T Qiu, P Fischer - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Holographic techniques are fundamental to applications such as volumetric displays, high-
density data storage and optical tweezers that require spatial control of intricate optical or …

3D printed components with ultrasonically arranged microscale structure

TM Llewellyn-Jones, BW Drinkwater… - Smart Materials and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper shows the first application of in situ manipulation of discontinuous fibrous
structure mid-print, within a 3D printed polymeric composite architecture. Currently, rapid …

Wave number–spiral acoustic tweezers for dynamic and reconfigurable manipulation of particles and cells

Z Tian, S Yang, PH Huang, Z Wang, P Zhang, Y Gu… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Acoustic tweezers have recently raised great interest across many fields including biology,
chemistry, engineering, and medicine, as they can perform contactless, label-free …

Review of progress in acoustic levitation

MAB Andrade, N Pérez, JC Adamowski - Brazilian Journal of Physics, 2018 - Springer
Acoustic levitation uses acoustic radiation forces to counteract gravity and suspend objects
in mid-air. Although acoustic levitation was first demonstrated almost a century ago, for a …

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 …

Acoustic tweezers via sub–time-of-flight regime surface acoustic waves

DJ Collins, C Devendran, Z Ma, JW Ng, A Neild… - Science advances, 2016 - science.org
Micrometer-scale acoustic waves are highly useful for refined optomechanical and
acoustofluidic manipulation, where these fields are spatially localized along the transducer …