In the last decade, inertial microfluidics has attracted significant attention and a wide variety
of channel designs that focus, concentrate and separate particles and fluids have been …

Microfluidics has experienced massive growth in the past two decades, and especially with
advances in rapid prototy** researchers have explored a multitude of channel structures …

When Segré and Silberberg in 1961 witnessed particles in a laminar pipe flow congregating
at an annulus in the pipe, scientists were perplexed and spent decades learning why such …

Microfluidic flow is commonly employed in the biological, chemical, or physical analysis of
samples in small fluid volumes because of the typical lack of nonlinear phenomena, with …

The paper reports a new method for three-dimensional observation of the location of
focused particle streams along both the depth and width of the channel cross-section in …

Rare cells in blood, such as circulating tumor cells or fetal cells in the maternal circulation,
posses a great prognostic or diagnostic value, or for the development of personalized …

Controlled manipulation of particles from very large volumes of fluid at high throughput is
critical for many biomedical, environmental and industrial applications. One promising …

An effective approach to separating shaped particles is needed to isolate disease-causing
cells for diagnostics or to aid in purifying nonspherical particles in applications ranging from …

The decoupled effects of Reynolds and Dean numbers are examined in inertial focusing
flows. In doing so, a complex set of inertial focusing behavioral regimes is discovered within …

Massive growth of the microfluidics field has triggered numerous advances in focusing,
separating, ordering, concentrating, and mixing of microparticles. Microfluidic systems …