Microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip preparation routes for organic nanoparticles and vesicular systems for nanomedicine applications

L Capretto, D Carugo, S Mazzitelli, C Nastruzzi… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2013 - Elsevier
In recent years, advancements in the fields of microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip technologies
have provided unique opportunities for the implementation of nanomaterial production …

A review of polystyrene bead manipulation by dielectrophoresis

Q Chen, YJ Yuan - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Exploitation of the intrinsic electrical properties of particles has recently emerged as an
appealing approach for trap** and separating various scaled particles. Initiative particle …

Optofluidics incorporating actively controlled micro-and nano-particles

AA Kayani, K Khoshmanesh, SA Ward, A Mitchell… - …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The advent of optofluidic systems incorporating suspended particles has resulted in the
emergence of novel applications. Such systems operate based on the fact that suspended …

Active control of silver nanoparticles spacing using dielectrophoresis for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

AF Chrimes, K Khoshmanesh, PR Stoddart… - Analytical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate an active microfluidic platform that integrates dielectrophoresis for the
control of silver nanoparticles spacing, as they flow in a liquid channel. By careful control of …

Active bioparticle manipulation in microfluidic systems

MAM Ali, KK Ostrikov, FA Khalid, BY Majlis… - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The motion of bioparticles in a microfluidic environment can be actively controlled using
several tuneable mechanisms, including hydrodynamic, electrophoresis, dielectrophoresis …

Dielectrophoretic deformation of breast cancer cells for lab on a chip applications

JY Chan, AB Ahmad Kayani, MA Md Ali… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the development and experimental analysis of a curved microelectrode
platform for the DEP deformation of breast cancer cells (MDA‐MB‐231). The platform is …

Dielectrophoresis of amyloid-beta proteins as a microfluidic template for Alzheimer's research

SA Al-Ahdal, AB Ahmad Kayani, MA Md Ali… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
We employed dielectrophoresis to a yeast cell suspension containing amyloid-beta proteins
(Aβ) in a microfluidic environment. The Aβ was separated from the cells and characterized …

Dynamic manipulation of modes in an optical waveguide using dielectrophoresis

AA Kayani, K Khoshmanesh, TG Nguyen… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of optofluidics has brought a high degree of tuneability and reconfigurability
to optical devices. These possibilities are provided by characteristics of fluids including …

Optical wavelength tuning via actuation of a fluidic grating

RA Guerrero, SJC Oliva - Optical Engineering, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Deformable optical elements may be physically altered through fluid displacement. We
imprint a grating surface onto an elastomeric membrane by soft lithography. The membrane …

Fluid tunable transition from trap** to discrete diffraction in waveguide arrays

E Zeller, GC Devendra, TG Nguyen, A Mitchell - Optics Express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We report on the fluid tunable transition from trap** to discrete diffraction in planar
polymer waveguide arrays. A novel optofluidic polymer waveguide array platform was …