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 …

Acoustofluidics, the integration of acoustics and microfluidics, is a rapidly growing research
field that is addressing challenges in biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and …

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 …

Stable-isotope probing is widely used to study the function of microbial taxa in their natural
environment, but sorting of isotopically labelled microbial cells from complex samples for …

The recent introduction of surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology onto lab-on-a-chip
platforms has opened a new frontier in microfluidics. The advantages provided by such SAW …

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 …

Techniques that can dexterously manipulate single particles, cells, and organisms are
invaluable for many applications in biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics. Here, we …

Autonomously moving micro-objects, or micromotors, have attracted the attention of the
scientific community over the past decade, but the incompatibility of phoretic motors with …

Fluid manipulations at the microscale and beyond are powerfully enabled through the use of
10–1,000-MHz acoustic waves. A superior alternative in many cases to other microfluidic …

We calculate the acoustic radiation force from an ultrasound wave on a compressible,
spherical particle suspended in a viscous fluid. Using Prandtl-Schlichting boundary-layer …