[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 …

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 …

Acoustofluidic centrifuge for nanoparticle enrichment and separation

Y Gu, C Chen, Z Mao, H Bachman, R Becker, J Rufo… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Liquid droplets have been studied for decades and have recently experienced renewed
attention as a simplified model for numerous fascinating physical phenomena occurring on …

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 …

Biomedical microfluidic devices by using low-cost fabrication techniques: A review

V Faustino, SO Catarino, R Lima, G Minas - Journal of biomechanics, 2016‏ - Elsevier
One of the most popular methods to fabricate biomedical microfluidic devices is by using a
soft-lithography technique. However, the fabrication of the moulds to produce microfluidic …

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 …

Surface acoustic wave devices for chemical sensing and microfluidics: a review and perspective

DB Go, MZ Atashbar, Z Ramshani, HC Chang - Analytical methods, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are electro-mechanical waves that form on the surface of
piezoelectric crystals. Because they are easy to construct and operate, SAW devices have …

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 …

Acoustofluidic rotational tweezing enables high-speed contactless morphological phenoty** of zebrafish larvae

C Chen, Y Gu, J Philippe, P Zhang, H Bachman… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Modern biomedical research and preclinical pharmaceutical development rely heavily on
the phenoty** of small vertebrate models for various diseases prior to human testing. In …

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 …