Surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors: Physics, materials, and applications

D Mandal, S Banerjee - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are the guided waves that propagate along the top surface
of a material with wave vectors orthogonal to the normal direction to the surface. Based on …

Acoustofluidic separation of cells and particles

M Wu, A Ozcelik, J Rufo, Z Wang, R Fang… - Microsystems & …, 2019 - nature.com
Acoustofluidics, the integration of acoustics and microfluidics, is a rapidly growing research
field that is addressing challenges in biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and …

Acoustic microfluidics

P Zhang, H Bachman, A Ozcelik… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Acoustic microfluidic devices are powerful tools that use sound waves to manipulate micro-
or nanoscale objects or fluids in analytical chemistry and biomedicine. Their simple device …

Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

HD **, H Zheng, W Guo, AM Gañán-Calvo, Y Ai… - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to manipulate and sort droplets is a fundamental issue in droplet-based
microfluidics. Various lab-on-a-chip applications can only be realized if droplets are …

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 …

Microscale acoustic streaming for biomedical and bioanalytical applications

W Wei, Y Wang, Z Wang, X Duan - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, acoustofluidics, one of the branches of microfluidics, has rapidly
developed as a multidisciplinary cutting edge research topic, covering many biomedical and …

Recent advances in acoustofluidic separation technology in biology

Y Fan, X Wang, J Ren, F Lin, J Wu - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustofluidic separation of cells and particles is an emerging technology that integrates
acoustics and microfluidics. In the last decade, this technology has attracted significant …

Ultrasound propulsion of micro-/nanomotors

T Xu, LP Xu, X Zhang - Applied Materials Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Synthetic micro-/nanomachines, which are able to mimic the amazing natural system, can
convert energy source into movement, and are expected to help humanity complete …

Recent advances in microfluidic cell sorting systems

Y Shen, Y Yalikun, Y Tanaka - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2019 - Elsevier
Effective and high-throughput cell sorting are critical technologies in single cell analysis in
biology, medicine and clinical applications. Especially for single cell analysis requiring high …

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 …