Air bubbles are a common occurrence in both natural and industrial settings and are a
significant topic in the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and medicine. The physical …

Standing surface acoustic waves (SSAWs) have been extensively used as acoustic
tweezers to manipulate, transport, and separate microparticles and biological cells in a …

Acoustofluidics offers contact-free manipulation of particles and fluids, enabling their uses in
various life sciences, such as for biological and medical applications. Recently, there have …

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) and lipoproteins are abundant and co-exist in blood. Both have
been proven to be valuable as diagnostic biomarkers and for therapeutics. However, EVs …

By integrating surface acoustic waves (SAW) into microfluidic devices, microparticle systems
can be fractionated precisely in flexible and easily scalable Lab-on-a-Chip platforms. The …

Droplet microfluidics is a technique that has the ability to compartmentalize reactions in sub
nano-(or pico-) liter volumes that can potentially enable millions of distinct biological assays …

High-precision and high-purity acquisition of tumor cells from whole blood is vital for early
disease detection and diagnosis. Here, we investigated a cascaded inertial and acoustic …

Controllable enrichment of micro/nanoscale objects plays a significant role in many
biomedical and biochemical applications, such as increasing the detection sensitivity of …

While mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have gained enormous attention due to their unique
properties of self-renewal, colony formation, and differentiation potential, the MSC …

In modelling acoustofluidic chips actuated by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) and using
polydimethylsilane (PDMS) as a channel material, reduced models are often adopted to …