Acoustofluidics for biomedical applications

J Rufo, F Cai, J Friend, M Wiklund… - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustofluidic technologies utilize acoustic waves to manipulate fluids and particles within
fluids, all in a contact-free and biocompatible manner. Over the past decade, acoustofluidic …

A review on micromixers

G Cai, L Xue, H Zhang, J Lin - Micromachines, 2017 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic devices have attracted increasing attention in the fields of biomedical
diagnostics, food safety control, environmental protection, and animal epidemic prevention …

Ultrasound-activated ciliary bands for microrobotic systems inspired by starfish

C Dillinger, N Nama, D Ahmed - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Cilia are short, hair-like appendages ubiquitous in various biological systems, which have
evolved to manipulate and gather food in liquids at regimes where viscosity dominates …

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 …

Microscale acoustic streaming for biomedical and bioanalytical applications

W Wei, Y Wang, Z Wang, X Duan - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, acoustofluidics, one of the branches of microfluidics, has rapidly
developed as a multidisciplinary cutting edge research topic, covering many biomedical and …

Cellphone-based hand-held microplate reader for point-of-care testing of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays

B Berg, B Cortazar, D Tseng, H Ozkan, S Feng, Q Wei… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Standard microplate based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) are widely
utilized for various nanomedicine, molecular sensing, and disease screening applications …

A review of microfluidic-based mixing methods

Z Li, B Zhang, D Dang, X Yang, W Yang… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microfluidic-based mixing methods have aroused increasing attention due to their
tremendous potential in bio-related and materials science fields. Achieving mixing based on …

An overview on state-of-art of micromixer designs, characteristics and applications

X Wang, Z Liu, B Wang, Y Cai, Q Song - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Micromixers are characterized based on characteristics such as excellent mixing efficiency,
low reagent cost and flexible controllability compared with conventional reactors in terms of …

Acoustofluidics‐assisted fluorescence‐SERS bimodal biosensors

N Hao, Z Pei, P Liu, H Bachman, TD Naquin, P Zhang… - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustofluidics, the fusion of acoustics and microfluidic techniques, has recently seen
increased research attention across multiple disciplines due in part to its capabilities in …

An ultra-rapid acoustic micromixer for synthesis of organic nanoparticles

MR Rasouli, M Tabrizian - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Mixing is a crucial step in many chemical analyses and synthesis processes, particularly in
nanoparticle formation, where it determines the nucleation rate, homogeneity, and …