[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Power ultrasound and its applications: A state-of-the-art review

Y Yao, Y Pan, S Liu - Ultrasonics sonochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic processing has attracted increasing attention by people because ultrasonic
technology may represent a flexible 'green'alternative for energy efficient processes. The …

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 …

Surface acoustic wave microfluidics

X Ding, P Li, SCS Lin, ZS Stratton, N Nama, F Guo… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

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 …

Surface acoustic wave microfluidics

LY Yeo, JR Friend - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
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 …

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 …

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 …

Methodologies, technologies, and strategies for acoustic streaming-based acoustofluidics

M Stringer, Z Zeng, X Zhang, Y Chai, W Li… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Acoustofluidics offers contact-free manipulation of particles and fluids, enabling their uses in
various life sciences, such as for biological and medical applications. Recently, there have …

Highly focused high-frequency travelling surface acoustic waves (SAW) for rapid single-particle sorting

DJ Collins, A Neild, Y Ai - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
High-speed sorting is an essential process in a number of clinical and research applications,
where single cells, droplets and particles are segregated based on their properties in a …