Electrical forces for manipulating cells at the microscale include electrophoresis and
dielectrophoresis. Electrophoretic forces arise from the interaction of a cell's charge and an …

Lab-on-chip technologies are being developed for multiplexed single cell assays.
Impedance offers a simple non-invasive method for counting, identifying and monitoring …

The ability to manipulate biological cells and micrometre-scale particles plays an important
role in many biological and colloidal science applications. However, conventional …

Nanotechnology, science, and engineering spearhead the 21st century revolution that is
leading to fundamental breakthroughs in the way materials, devices, and systems are …

We have developed an integrated microfabricated cell sorter using multilayer soft
lithography. This integrated cell sorter is incorporated with various microfluidic …

Dielectrophoresis–the induced motion of polarizable particles in nonuniform fields–has
proven to be an effective method for the separation of bioparticles such as cells, viruses and …

The success, growth, and virtually limitless applications of nanotechnology depend upon our
ability to manipulate nanoscale objects, which in turn depends upon develo** new …

The phenomena of dielectrophoresis and electrorotation, collectively referred to as AC
electrokinetics, have been used for many years to study, manipulate and separate particles …

This paper provides an overview of the electrokinetic phenomena associated with particles
and cells in microchannel systems. The most important phenomena covered include …

The microfluidic lab-on-a-chip allows scientists to conduct chemical and biochemical
analysis in a miniaturized format so small that properties and effects are successfully …