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 …

Acoustic tweezers for the life sciences

A Ozcelik, J Rufo, F Guo, Y Gu, P Li, J Lata, TJ Huang - Nature methods, 2018 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers are a versatile set of tools that use sound waves to manipulate
bioparticles ranging from nanometer-sized extracellular vesicles to millimeter-sized …

Acoustofluidic separation of cells and particles

M Wu, A Ozcelik, J Rufo, Z Wang, R Fang… - Microsystems & …, 2019 - nature.com
Acoustofluidics, the integration of acoustics and microfluidics, is a rapidly growing research
field that is addressing challenges in biology, medicine, chemistry, engineering, and …

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 …

Acoustofluidic centrifuge for nanoparticle enrichment and separation

Y Gu, C Chen, Z Mao, H Bachman, R Becker, J Rufo… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Liquid droplets have been studied for decades and have recently experienced renewed
attention as a simplified model for numerous fascinating physical phenomena occurring on …

Acoustic holographic cell patterning in a biocompatible hydrogel

Z Ma, AW Holle, K Melde, T Qiu, K Poeppel… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustophoresis is promising as a rapid, biocompatible, noncontact cell manipulation
method, where cells are arranged along the nodes or antinodes of the acoustic field …

Nanomaterial patterning in 3D printing

B Elder, R Neupane, E Tokita, U Ghosh… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The synergistic integration of nanomaterials with 3D printing technologies can enable the
creation of architecture and devices with an unprecedented level of functional integration. In …

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 …

Microscale acoustic streaming for biomedical and bioanalytical applications

W Wei, Y Wang, Z Wang, X Duan - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, acoustofluidics, one of the branches of microfluidics, has rapidly
developed as a multidisciplinary cutting edge research topic, covering many biomedical and …

Self-adaptive virtual microchannel for continuous enrichment and separation of nanoparticles

Y Yang, L Zhang, K **, M He, W Wei, X Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The transport, enrichment, and purification of nanoparticles are fundamental activities in the
fields of biology, chemistry, material science, and medicine. Here, we demonstrate an …