The quantity of plastic materials produced worldwide is progressively increasing. For
instance, annual global plastic production has increased from 1.5 to 390.7 million metric …

The advancement of microfluidics has enabled numerous discoveries and technologies in
life sciences. However, due to the lack of industry standards and configurability, the design …

Inertial microfluidics uses the hydrodynamic effects induced at finite Reynolds numbers to
achieve passive manipulation of particles, cells, or fluids and offers the advantages of high …

Abstract Microplastics (< 5 mm) are divided into primary and secondary microplastics, which
are further degraded into nanoplastics. The microplastic particles are widely distributed in …

Cell separation is a key step in many biomedical research areas including biotechnology,
cancer research, regenerative medicine, and drug discovery. While conventional cell sorting …

Miniaturization has been the driving force of scientific and technological advances over
recent decades. Recently, flexibility has gained significant interest, particularly in …

Electromagnetic forces and torques enable many key technologies, including optical
tweezers or dielectrophoresis. Interestingly, both techniques rely on the same physical …

Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

Dielectric particles in a non-uniform electric field are subject to a force caused by a
phenomenon called dielectrophoresis (DEP). DEP is a commonly used technique in …

Inertial microfluidic technology, which can manipulate the target particle entirely relying on
the microchannel characteristic geometry and intrinsic hydrodynamic effect, has attracted …