The rapid development of micromanipulation technologies has opened exciting new
opportunities for the actuation, selection and assembly of a variety of non-biological and …

Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

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 …

The optical manipulation of tiny objects is significant to understand and to explore the
unknown in the microworld, which has found many applications in materials science and life …

For rapid response against the prevailing COVID‐19 (coronavirus disease 19), it is a global
imperative to exploit the immunogenicity of existing formulations for safe and efficient …

Microbubbles (MBs) have been extensively investigated in the field of biomedicine for the
past few decades. Ultrasound and laser are the most frequently used sources of energy to …

Manipulation of micro-objects have been playing an essential role in biochemical analysis
or clinical diagnostics. Among the diverse technologies for micromanipulation, acoustic …

The emerging field of droplet microfluidics requires effective on-chip handling and sorting of
droplets. In this work, we demonstrate a microfluidic device that is capable of sorting picoliter …

Optical manipulation of biological cells and nanoparticles is significantly important in life
sciences, early disease diagnosis, and nanomanufacturing. However, low-power and …

Micro-robots (MRs) are miniature machines with dimensions smaller than 1 mm and have
semi-or fully-autonomous capabilities, including sensing, decision-making, and performing …