Manipulation and separation of submicron and nanoparticles are indispensable in many
chemical, biological, medical, and environmental applications. Conventional technologies …

The manipulation of cells and particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in microchannels
has drawn increasing attention, in part due to the ability for single-stream three-dimensional …

Microfluidic devices have been widely used since 1990s for diverse manipulations of
particles (a general term of beads, cells, vesicles, drops, etc.) in a variety of applications …

Recently, research on particle migration in non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluids has gained
considerable attention. In a viscoelastic fluid, three dimensional (3D) particle focusing can …

The locomotion of microorganisms and spermatozoa in complex viscoelastic fluids is of
critical importance in many biological processes such as fertilization, infection, and biofilm …

Since the discovery of inertial focusing in 1961, numerous theories have been put forward to
explain the migration of particles in inertial flows, but a complete understanding is still …

The third edition of Bubbles, Drops, and Particles in Non-Newtonian Fluids provides
comprehensive coverage of the scientific foundations and the latest advances in particle …

The fast growth of microfluidic applications based on complex fluids is a result of the unique
fluid dynamics of these systems, enabling the creation of devices for health care or …

An immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) for fluid-structure interaction
(FSI) problems involving viscoelastic fluids and complex geometries is presented in this …

The combination of flow elasticity and inertia has emerged as a viable tool for focusing and
manipulating particles using microfluidics. Although there is considerable interest in the field …