Surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors: Physics, materials, and applications

D Mandal, S Banerjee - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are the guided waves that propagate along the top surface
of a material with wave vectors orthogonal to the normal direction to the surface. Based on …

Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Acoustic microfluidics

P Zhang, H Bachman, A Ozcelik… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Acoustic microfluidic devices are powerful tools that use sound waves to manipulate micro-
or nanoscale objects or fluids in analytical chemistry and biomedicine. Their simple device …

Micro/nano acoustofluidics: materials, phenomena, design, devices, and applications

W Connacher, N Zhang, A Huang, J Mei, S Zhang… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Acoustic actuation of fluids at small scales may finally enable a comprehensive lab-on-a-
chip revolution in microfluidics, overcoming long-standing difficulties in fluid and particle …

High-throughput screening by droplet microfluidics: Perspective into key challenges and future prospects

EM Payne, DA Holland-Moritz, S Sun, RT Kennedy - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In two decades of development, impressive strides have been made for automating basic
laboratory operations in droplet-based microfluidics, allowing the emergence of a new form …

Design and scaling up of microchemical systems: a review

J Zhang, K Wang, AR Teixeira… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The past two decades have witnessed a rapid development of microreactors. A substantial
number of reactions have been tested in microchemical systems, revealing the advantages …

Bioinspired programmable wettability arrays for droplets manipulation

L Sun, F Bian, Y Wang, Y Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The manipulation of liquid droplets demonstrates great importance in various areas from
laboratory research to our daily life. Here, inspired by the unique microstructure of plant …

Multiphase flow in microfluidics: From droplets and bubbles to the encapsulated structures

A Sattari, P Hanafizadeh, M Hoorfar - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microfluidic technologies have a unique ability to control more precisely and effectively on
two-phase flow systems in comparison with macro systems. Controlling the size of the …

Droplet microfluidics: from proof-of-concept to real-world utility?

A Suea-Ngam, PD Howes, M Srisa-Art… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics constitutes a diverse and practical tool set that enables chemical and
biological experiments to be performed at high speed and with enhanced efficiency when …

Methodologies, technologies, and strategies for acoustic streaming-based acoustofluidics

M Stringer, Z Zeng, X Zhang, Y Chai, W Li… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
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 …