New insights into suspended drops: When soft matter meets acoustic levitation

H Chen, Z Hong, D Zang - Droplet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic levitation has developed into a popular but elegant tool for the study of drops as
well as soft matter due to its exceptional levitation capabilities to a variety of liquid samples …

Ultrasonic acoustic levitation for fast frame rate X-ray protein crystallography at room temperature

S Tsu**o, T Tomizaki - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Increasing the data acquisition rate of X-ray diffraction images for macromolecular crystals at
room temperature at synchrotrons has the potential to significantly accelerate both structural …

Heat and mass transfer characteristics of binary droplets in acoustic levitation

Y Sasaki, K Hasegawa, A Kaneko, Y Abe - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The complex relationships between the flow field and heat transfer phenomena of
acoustically levitated droplets under evaporation were investigated. To explain these …

[HTML][HTML] Transition of flow field of acoustically levitated droplets with evaporation

Y Sasaki, K Kobayashi, K Hasegawa, A Kaneko… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated the multidimensional velocity field of acoustically levitated droplets using
stereoscopic particle image velocimetry. To clarify the correlation between evaporation …

Flow structure and evaporation behavior of an acoustically levitated droplet

K Kobayashi, A Goda, K Hasegawa, Y Abe - Physics of fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally investigate the flow structure and evaporation behavior of a droplet in
an∼ 19 kHz single-axis acoustic levitator. Decane, nonane, octane, heptane, hexane, and …

Microlayered flow structure around an acoustically levitated droplet under a phase-change process

K Hasegawa, Y Abe, A Goda - npj Microgravity, 2016 - nature.com
The acoustic levitation method (ALM) has found extensive applications in the fields of
materials science, analytical chemistry, and biomedicine. This paper describes an …

Evaporation and crystallization of NaCl-water droplets suspended in air by acoustic levitation

LB Bunio, J Wang, R Kannaiyan, ID Gates - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Evaporation of salt-water solutions is common in industrial processes and nature.
Evaporation kinetics for multicomponent droplets have been investigated previously but …

Study on heat transfer and flow characteristic under phase-change process of an acoustically levitated droplet

K Shitanishi, K Hasegawa, A Kaneko, Y Abe - Microgravity Science and …, 2014 - Springer
Acoustic levitation is one of the levitation technique which is expected to be used for
analytical chemistry and manufacturing new materials. Thus, it is important to gather the …

External flow structure and interfacial transport phenomena of an acoustically levitated droplet

A GODA, K HASEGAWA, A KANEKO… - Japanese Journal of …, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Acoustic levitation method is one of levitation techniques and describes some nonlinear
behaviors such as the deformation of droplet interface. The purpose of this paper is to clarify …

Effect of temperature change on internal-external flow and convective heat transfer of an acoustically levitated droplet

M NIWA, A GODA, K HASEGAWA… - Japanese Journal of …, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The acoustic levitation is one of the levitation techniques to control a sample in sound
pressure. The acoustic levitation induces the internal and external flow of the levitated …