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 …

Surface acoustic wave microfluidics

X Ding, P Li, SCS Lin, ZS Stratton, N Nama, F Guo… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent introduction of surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology onto lab-on-a-chip
platforms has opened a new frontier in microfluidics. The advantages provided by such SAW …

Surface acoustic wave microfluidics

LY Yeo, JR Friend - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Fluid manipulations at the microscale and beyond are powerfully enabled through the use of
10–1,000-MHz acoustic waves. A superior alternative in many cases to other microfluidic …

Microscale acoustofluidics: Microfluidics driven via acoustics and ultrasonics

J Friend, LY Yeo - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
This article reviews acoustic microfluidics: the use of acoustic fields, principally ultrasonics,
for application in microfluidics. Although acoustics is a classical field, its promising, and …

Acoustic trap**: An emerging tool for microfabrication technology

C Yin, X Jiang, S Mann, L Tian, BW Drinkwater - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The high throughput deposition of microscale objects with precise spatial arrangement
represents a key step in microfabrication technology. This can be done by creating physical …

[HTML][HTML] Independent trap** and manipulation of microparticles using dexterous acoustic tweezers

CRP Courtney, CEM Demore, H Wu… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
An electronically controlled acoustic tweezer was used to demonstrate two acoustic
manipulation phenomena: superposition of Bessel functions to allow independent …

Optical manipulation: from fluid to solid domains

Q Jia, W Lyu, W Yan, W Tang, J Lu, M Qiu - Photonics Insights, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Light carries energy and momentum, laying the physical foundation of optical manipulation
that has facilitated advances in myriad scientific disciplines, ranging from biochemistry and …

Recent advances in particle and droplet manipulation for lab-on-a-chip devices based on surface acoustic waves

Z Wang, J Zhe - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Manipulation of microscale particles and fluid liquid droplets is an important task for lab-on-a-
chip devices for numerous biological researches and applications, such as cell detection …

Surface acoustic waves induced micropatterning of cells in gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels

SM Naseer, A Manbachi, M Samandari, P Walch… - …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Acoustic force patterning is an emerging technology that provides a platform to control the
spatial location of cells in a rapid, accurate, yet contactless manner. However, very few …

Observation of orbital angular momentum transfer from Bessel-shaped acoustic vortices to diphasic liquid-microparticle mixtures

ZY Hong, J Zhang, BW Drinkwater - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We observe distinct regimes of orbital angular momentum (OAM) transfer from two-
dimensional Bessel-shaped acoustic vortices to matter. In a homogeneous diphasic mixture …