Micromixers—a review

NT Nguyen, Z Wu - Journal of micromechanics and …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
This review reports the progress on the recent development of micromixers. The review first
presents the different micromixer types and designs. Micromixers in this review are …

Magnetic actuation methods in bio/soft robotics

N Ebrahimi, C Bi, DJ Cappelleri, G Ciuti… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, magnetism has gained an enormous amount of interest among researchers
for actuating different sizes and types of bio/soft robots, which can be via an electromagnetic …

Particle separation and sorting in microfluidic devices: a review

P Sajeesh, AK Sen - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2014 - Springer
Separation and sorting of micron-sized particles has great importance in diagnostics,
chemical and biological analyses, food and chemical processing and environmental …

Massively parallel manipulation of single cells and microparticles using optical images

PY Chiou, AT Ohta, MC Wu - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
The ability to manipulate biological cells and micrometre-scale particles plays an important
role in many biological and colloidal science applications. However, conventional …

Magnetism and microfluidics

N Pamme - Lab on a Chip, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
Magnetic forces are now being utilised in an amazing variety of microfluidic applications.
Magnetohydrodynamic flow has been applied to the pum** of fluids through …

Acoustic tweezers: patterning cells and microparticles using standing surface acoustic waves (SSAW)

J Shi, D Ahmed, X Mao, SCS Lin, A Lawit, TJ Huang - Lab on a Chip, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Here we present an active patterning technique named “acoustic tweezers” that utilizes
standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW) to manipulate and pattern cells and microparticles …

Microfluidics for cell separation

AAS Bhagat, H Bow, HW Hou, SJ Tan, J Han… - Medical & biological …, 2010 - Springer
The need for efficient cell separation, an essential preparatory step in many biological and
medical assays, has led to the recent development of numerous microscale separation …

A review of sorting, separation and isolation of cells and microbeads for biomedical applications: microfluidic approaches

A Dalili, E Samiei, M Hoorfar - Analyst, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Several biomedical analyses are performed on particular types of cells present in body
samples or using functionalized microparticles. Success in such analyses depends on the …

Blood-on-a-chip

M Toner, D Irimia - Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Accurate, fast, and affordable analysis of the cellular component of blood is of
prime interest for medicine and research. Yet, most often sample preparation procedures for …

Review of cell and particle trap** in microfluidic systems

J Nilsson, M Evander, B Hammarström, T Laurell - Analytica chimica acta, 2009 - Elsevier
The ability to obtain ideal conditions for well-defined chemical microenvironments and
controlled temporal chemical and/or thermal variations holds promise of high-resolution cell …