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 …

Unconventional acoustic approaches for localized and designed micromanipulation

K Kolesnik, M Xu, PVS Lee, V Rajagopal, DJ Collins - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic fields are ideal for micromanipulation, being biocompatible and with force gradients
approaching the scale of single cells. They have accordingly found use in a variety of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in biofabrication techniques towards functional bioprinted heterogeneous engineered tissues: a comprehensive review

WS Harley, CC Li, J Toombs, CD O'Connell, HK Taylor… - Bioprinting, 2021 - Elsevier
Biofabrication is a fast-evolving and multi-disciplinary field, harnessing the benefits and
capabilities of additive manufacturing and complementary bioassembly techniques at the …

Massively multiplexed submicron particle patterning in acoustically driven oscillating nanocavities

M Tayebi, R O'Rorke, HC Wong, HY Low, J Han… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoacoustic fields are a promising method for particle actuation at the nanoscale, though
THz frequencies are typically required to create nanoscale wavelengths. In this work, the …

Acoustic radiation force on small spheres due to transient acoustic fields

Q Wang, A Riaud, J Zhou, Z Gong, M Baudoin - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
Acoustic radiation force is a net force experienced by an object under the action of an
acoustic wave. Most theoretical models require the acoustic wave to be periodic, if not purely …

Modelling of SAW-PDMS acoustofluidics: Physical fields and particle motions influenced by different descriptions of the PDMS domain

Z Ni, C Yin, G Xu, L **e, J Huang, S Liu, J Tu, X Guo… - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In modelling acoustofluidic chips actuated by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) and using
polydimethylsilane (PDMS) as a channel material, reduced models are often adopted to …

Acoustically manipulating internal structure of disk-in-sphere endoskeletal droplets

G Shakya, T Yang, Y Gao, AK Fajrial, B Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Manipulation of micro/nano particles has been well studied and demonstrated by optical,
electromagnetic, and acoustic approaches, or their combinations. Manipulation of internal …

Polymeric fully inertial lab-on-a-chip with enhanced-throughput sorting capabilities

A Volpe, P Paiè, A Ancona, R Osellame - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2019 - Springer
In biology and medicine, the application of microfluidics filtration technologies to the
separation of rare particles requires processing large amounts of liquid in a short time to …

Particle separation in surface acoustic wave microfluidic devices using reprogrammable, pseudo-standing waves

G Simon, Y Pailhas, MAB Andrade, J Reboud… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We report size and density/compressibility-based particle sorting using on-off quasi-standing
waves based on the frequency difference between two ultrasonic transducers. The 13.3 MHz …