Viscoelastic microfluidics: Progress and challenges

J Zhou, I Papautsky - Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2020 - nature.com
The manipulation of cells and particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in microchannels
has drawn increasing attention, in part due to the ability for single-stream three-dimensional …

A review of sorting, separation and isolation of cells and microbeads for biomedical applications: microfluidic approaches

A Dalili, E Samiei, M Hoorfar - Analyst, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Several biomedical analyses are performed on particular types of cells present in body
samples or using functionalized microparticles. Success in such analyses depends on the …

Particle manipulations in non-Newtonian microfluidics: A review

X Lu, C Liu, G Hu, X Xuan - Journal of colloid and interface science, 2017 - Elsevier
Microfluidic devices have been widely used since 1990s for diverse manipulations of
particles (a general term of beads, cells, vesicles, drops, etc.) in a variety of applications …

Particle migration due to viscoelasticity of the suspending liquid and its relevance in microfluidic devices

G D'Avino, F Greco, PL Maffettone - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The fast growth of microfluidic applications based on complex fluids is a result of the unique
fluid dynamics of these systems, enabling the creation of devices for health care or …

Recent advances and future perspectives on microfluidic liquid handling

NT Nguyen, M Hejazian, CH Ooi, N Kashaninejad - Micromachines, 2017 - mdpi.com
The interdisciplinary research field of microfluidics has the potential to revolutionize current
technologies that require the handling of a small amount of fluid, a fast response, low costs …

Focusing of sub-micrometer particles in microfluidic devices

T Zhang, ZY Hong, SY Tang, W Li, DW Inglis… - Lab on a Chip, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Sub-micrometer particles (0.10–1.0 μm) are of great significance to study, eg, microvesicles
and protein aggregates are targets for therapeutic intervention, and sub-micrometer …

Microfluidics for label-free sorting of rare circulating tumor cells

S Zhu, F Jiang, Y Han, N **ang, Z Ni - Analyst, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been widely considered as promising novel biomarkers
for molecular research and clinical diagnosis of cancer. However, the sorting of CTCs is very …

Carbon nanotube modification of microbial fuel cell electrodes

AA Yazdi, L D'Angelo, N Omer, G Windiasti… - Biosensors and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for energy harvesting devices is preferable due to their
unique mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties. On the other hand, microbial fuel cells …

[HTML][HTML] Label-free microfluidic sorting of microparticles

J Zhou, P Mukherjee, H Gao, Q Luan… - APL bioengineering, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Massive growth of the microfluidics field has triggered numerous advances in focusing,
separating, ordering, concentrating, and mixing of microparticles. Microfluidic systems …

Continuous microfluidic particle separation via elasto-inertial pinched flow fractionation

X Lu, X Xuan - Analytical chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Many of the fluids encountered in chemical and biomedical applications exhibit non-
Newtonian behavior. However, the majority of current particle separation methods have …