Label-free isolation of exosomes using microfluidic technologies

S Hassanpour Tamrin, A Sanati Nezhad, A Sen - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Exosomes are cell-derived structures packaged with lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They
exist in diverse bodily fluids and are involved in physiological and pathological processes …

Dendritic patterns from shear-enhanced anisotropy in nematic liquid crystals

Q Zhang, S Zhou, R Zhang, I Bischofberger - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Controlling the growth morphology of fluid instabilities is challenging because of their self-
amplified and nonlinear growth. The viscous fingering instability, which arises when a less …

Harnessing Gravity‐Induced Instability of Soft Materials: Mechanics and Application

C Lü, K Li, Y Du, H Zhang, C Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This work offers a comprehensive overview of how gravity affects soft materials, with a
particular emphasis on gravity‐induced instability. Soft materials, including biological …

Transitions of dissolution patterns in rough fractures

T Wang, R Hu, Z Yang, CX Zhou… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Key Points We visualize and quantify three distinct dissolution patterns in radial rough
fractures We propose a theoretical model to predict the transitions of dissolution patterns …

On the role of gravity in dissolving horizontal fractures

R Hu, K Li, CX Zhou, T Wang, Z Yang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fractures are ubiquitous in geological systems. As reactive fluid flow through a fracture,
dissolution of the fracture walls may occur, thus altering the fracture aperture and increasing …

Dissolution regimes of a horizontal channel in a gravity field

W Guo, R Hu, CX Zhou, Z Yang, YF Chen - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Buoyancy-driven dissolution of the solid phase is common in natural processes and
subsurface applications, such as geomorphology, solution mining, and geological CO 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Active control of electro-visco-fingering in Hele-Shaw cells using Maxwell stress

P Li, X Huang, YP Zhao - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Viscous fingering is an extensively observed phenomenon in porous media or Hele-Shaw
cells. In general, this instability is particularly difficult to control for given fluids and …

Double diffusive instability with a constriction

S Legare, A Grace, M Stastna - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Confined geometries have an effect on hydrodynamic instabilities, and this provides
opportunities for controlling the rate of mixing in flows of engineering relevance. In multi …

Double-diffusive instability in a thin vertical channel

S Legare, A Grace, M Stastna - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Double-diffusive convection in the finger regime is studied using direct numerical
simulations in a confined domain. For narrow (1–4 mm horizontal extent) domains, we …

Reactive-infiltration instability in a Hele-Shaw cell influenced by initial aperture and flow rate

T Wang, R Hu, Z Yang, YF Chen, Y Li, CB Zhou - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
Reactive-infiltration instability is an inherent nature of a solid dissolution process in a rock
fracture. This instability expands the aperture (spacing) of the fracture inhomogeneously and …