[HTML][HTML] Advances in piezoelectric thin films for acoustic biosensors, acoustofluidics and lab-on-chip applications

YQ Fu, JK Luo, NT Nguyen, AJ Walton… - Progress in Materials …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently, piezoelectric thin films including zinc oxide (ZnO) and aluminium nitride (AlN)
have found a broad range of lab-on-chip applications such as biosensing, particle/cell …

Micro/nano acoustofluidics: materials, phenomena, design, devices, and applications

W Connacher, N Zhang, A Huang, J Mei, S Zhang… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic actuation of fluids at small scales may finally enable a comprehensive lab-on-a-
chip revolution in microfluidics, overcoming long-standing difficulties in fluid and particle …

Two-dimensional single-cell patterning with one cell per well driven by surface acoustic waves

DJ Collins, B Morahan, J Garcia-Bustos… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
In single-cell analysis, cellular activity and parameters are assayed on an individual, rather
than population-average basis. Essential to observing the activity of these cells over time is …

Advances in digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) and its emerging biomedical applications

L Cao, X Cui, J Hu, Z Li, JR Choi, Q Yang, M Lin… - Biosensors and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in 1985, PCR has played a
significant role in molecular diagnostics for genetic diseases, pathogens, oncogenes and …

Surface acoustic wave devices for chemical sensing and microfluidics: a review and perspective

DB Go, MZ Atashbar, Z Ramshani, HC Chang - Analytical methods, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are electro-mechanical waves that form on the surface of
piezoelectric crystals. Because they are easy to construct and operate, SAW devices have …

Surface acoustic waves in biosensing applications

Y Huang, PK Das, VR Bhethanabotla - Sensors and Actuators Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we review the utilization of surface acoustic waves in biosensing applications.
A brief background on the theoretical aspects and on the modeling principles for acoustic …

Digital polymerase chain reaction technology–recent advances and future perspectives

KR Sreejith, CH Ooi, J Jin, DV Dao, NT Nguyen - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) technology has remained a “hot topic” in the last
two decades due to its potential applications in cell biology, genetic engineering, and …

Highly localized acoustic streaming and size-selective submicrometer particle concentration using high frequency microscale focused acoustic fields

DJ Collins, Z Ma, Y Ai - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Concentration and separation of particles and biological specimens are fundamental
functions of micro/nanofluidic systems. Acoustic streaming is an effective and biocompatible …

Surface‐acoustic‐wave (SAW) induced mixing enhances the detection of viruses: application to measles sensing in whole human saliva with a SAW lab‐on‐a‐chip

M Agostini, F Lunardelli, M Gagliardi… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Measles is one of the most infectious airborne viruses worldwide. With a basic reproduction
rate between 12–18, this virus is six times more infectious than the SARS‐CoV‐2 Alpha …

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 …