Airborne Acoustic Vortex End Effector‐Based Contactless, Multi‐Mode, Programmable Control of Object Surfing

T Li, J Li, L Bo, MR Brooks, Y Du, B Cai… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Tweezers based on optical, electric, magnetic, and acoustic fields have shown great
potential for contactless object manipulation. However, current tweezers designed for …

Nano/Micromotors for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy: Innovative Designs to Improve Biocompatibility

J Zheng, R Huang, Z Lin, S Chen, K Yuan - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nano/micromotors are artificial robots at the nano/microscale that are capable of
transforming energy into mechanical movement. In cancer diagnosis or therapy, such “tiny …

Interplay of acoustophoresis and dielectrophoresis in a standing surface acoustic wave field: from spherical to non-spherical particles

S Sachs, D Schreier, F Brand, KS Drese… - Microfluidics and …, 2024 - Springer
Standing surface acoustic waves (sSAW) emerged as a flexible tool for precise manipulation
of spherical and non-spherical objects in Lab-on-a-Chip devices. While the manipulation of …

A Simulated Investigation of Lithium Niobate Orientation Effects on Standing Acoustic Waves

RD Janardhana, N Jackson - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The integration of high-frequency acoustic waves with microfluidics has been gaining
popularity as a method of separating cells/particles. A standing surface acoustic wave …

Acoustofluidic manipulation for submicron to nanoparticles

W Wei, Z Wang, B Wang, X He, Y Wang, Y Bai… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Particles, ranging from submicron to nanometer scale, can be broadly categorized into
biological and non‐biological types. Submicron‐to‐nanoscale bioparticles include various …

High‐Performance and Environmentally‐Friendly Bulk‐Wave‐Acoustofluidic Devices Driven by Lead‐Free Piezoelectric Materials

W Qiu - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bulk‐wave‐acoustofluidic devices provide strong acoustic fields and high device efficiency,
thereby offering high‐throughput capability when processing biological samples. Such …

Acoustofluidic separation of cell-encapsulated droplets based on traveling surface acoustic wave-induced acoustic radiation force

M Ali, SH Lee, B Cha, W Kim, NE Oyunbaatar… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microscale droplets encapsulating various samples have been widely utilized in droplet
microfluidics for single-cell analysis, cell biology, and drug screening. However, the random …

Selective, Robust and Precision Manipulation of Particles in Complex Environments With Ultrasonic Phased Transducer Array and Microscope

M Wang, S An, Z Sun, J Li, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The noncontact acoustic manipulation of particles, bio-samples, droplets, and air bubbles
has emerged as a promising technology in fields of biology, chemistry, medicine, etc. The …

Enhanced propagation of free films with fast spread-out phenomena under the influence of megahertz surface acoustic waves

Y Zhang, R Feng, C Ding, S Yan, L Yang, G Chang… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, a novel approach for enhancing the rapid spreading of free liquid film on lithium
niobate (LiNbO 3) substrate under megahertz (MHz) surface acoustic wave (SAW) excitation …

Surface Acoustic Wave-Based Microfluidic Device for Microparticles Manipulation: Effects of Microchannel Elasticity on the Device Performance

G Mezzanzanica, O Français, S Mariani - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Size sorting, line focusing, and isolation of microparticles or cells are fundamental
ingredients in the improvement of disease diagnostic tools adopted in biology and …