Enhanced aerosol-jet printing using annular acoustic field for high resolution and minimal overspray

T Ma, Y Li, H Cheng, Y Niu, Z Xiong, A Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Aerosol jet printing has the potential to fabricate fine features on various substrates due to its
large stand-off distance. However, the presence of overspray and instability, particularly at …

Acoustofluidic droplet sorter based on single phase focused transducers

R Zhong, S Yang, GS Ugolini, T Naquin, J Zhang… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Droplet microfluidics has revolutionized the biomedical and drug development fields by
allowing for independent microenvironments to conduct drug screening at the single cell …

Binary particle separation in droplet microfluidics using acoustophoresis

A Fornell, K Cushing, J Nilsson, M Tenje - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We show a method for separation of two particle species with different acoustic contrasts
originally encapsulated in the same droplet in a continuous two-phase system. This was …

Acoustic focusing of beads and cells in hydrogel droplets

A Fornell, H Pohlit, Q Shi, M Tenje - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The generation of hydrogel droplets using droplet microfluidics has emerged as a powerful
tool with many applications in biology and medicine. Here, a microfluidic system to control …

Numerical and experimental analysis of a hybrid material acoustophoretic device for manipulation of microparticles

A Barani, P Mosaddegh, S Haghjooy Javanmard… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Acoustophoretic microfluidic devices have been developed for accurate, label-free,
contactless, and non-invasive manipulation of bioparticles in different biofluids. However …

In-droplet microparticle separation using travelling surface acoustic wave

K Park, J Park, JH Jung, G Destgeer, H Ahmed… - …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Droplets in microfluidic systems can contain microscale objects such as cells and
microparticles. The control of the positions of microscale objects within a microchannel is …

Fabrication of silicon microfluidic chips for acoustic particle focusing using direct laser writing

A Fornell, P Söderbäck, Z Liu… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
We have developed a fast and simple method for fabricating microfluidic channels in silicon
using direct laser writing. The laser microfabrication process was optimised to generate …

Intra-droplet acoustic particle focusing: simulations and experimental observations

A Fornell, F Garofalo, J Nilsson, H Bruus… - Microfluidics and …, 2018 - Springer
The aim of this paper is to study resonance conditions for acoustic particle focusing inside
droplets in two-phase microfluidic systems. A bulk acoustic wave microfluidic chip was …

[HTML][HTML] On-chip background dilution in droplets with high particle recovery using acoustophoresis

Z Liu, A Fornell, L Barbe, K Hjort, M Tenje - Biomicrofluidics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Droplet microfluidics has shown great potential for on-chip biological and chemical assays.
However, fluid exchange in droplet microfluidics with high particle recovery is still a major …

Optimisation of the droplet split design for high acoustic particle enrichment in droplet microfluidics

A Fornell, Z Liu, M Tenje - Microelectronic Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
We have characterised three droplet split designs for acoustic particle enrichment in water-in-
oil droplets. The microfluidic channel design included a droplet generation junction, acoustic …