ReviewLab on a chip2013
Surface acoustic wave microfluidics.
Review in Lab on a chip, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 238 papers.
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238 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Applications of Acoustic Waves in Micro-Droplet Technologies.Biosensors · 2026Review
- A wearable acoustofluidic patch for rapid reversal of opioid overdose.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A Metamaterial Buckling-Assisted Surface-Acoustic-Wave Enabled Sensor (mBASES) for Versatile and Ultrasensitive Biomarker Detection.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
- Developing Micro/Nanostructured Fluidic Mixing Technology for Biomedical Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Surface Acoustic Wave Devices: New Mechanisms, Enabling Techniques, and Application Frontiers.Micromachines · 2026Review
- Inhomogeneous Fluid Motion Induced by Standing Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW): A Finite Element Study.Micromachines · 2026Article
- Metamaterials and Fluid Flows.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Microfluidics-Assisted Three-Dimensional Confinement of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals for Sensing Applications.Micromachines · 2026Review
- Precision acoustofluidics for high-throughput mechanobiology in suspension cells.Science advances · 2026Article
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- Acoustofluidics Powered Synthesis of Bacterial Cellulose.ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering · 2025Article
- Research on the Design of Micromixer Based on Acoustic Streaming-Driven Sharp-Edge Structures.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Novel Microfluidic Platform for Circulating Tumor Cell Identification in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.Micromachines · 2025Article
- A pattern and lock strategy integrating acoustic patterning and hydrogel crosslinking for stable cell architectures.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Disposable Microchip Platform with Removable Actuators Using SAW Excitation.ACS measurement science au · 2025Article
- Nucleic acid amplification tests in digital microfluidics: the promise of next-generation point-of-care diagnostics.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Review
- Advances in Wettability-Engineered Open Planar-Surface Droplet Manipulation.Micromachines · 2025Review
- Scientific Machine Learning for Elastic and Acoustic Wave Propagation: Neural Operator and Physics-Guided Neural Network.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Droplet Generation and Manipulation in Microfluidics: A Comprehensive Overview of Passive and Active Strategies.Biosensors · 2025Review
178 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
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 microfluidics are numerous: simple fabrication, high biocompatibility, fast fluid actuation, versatility, compact and inexpensive devices and accessories, contact-free particle manipulation, and compatibility with other microfluidic components. We believe that these advantages enable SAW microfluidics to play a significant role in a variety of applications in biology, chemistry, engineering and medicine. In this review article, we discuss the theory underpinning SAWs and their interactions with particles and the contacting fluids in which they are suspended. We then review the SAW-enabled microfluidic devices demonstrated to date, starting with devices that accomplish fluid mixing and transport through the use of travelling SAW; we follow that by reviewing the more recent innovations achieved with standing SAW that enable such actions as particle/cell focusing, sorting and patterning. Finally, we look forward and appraise where the discipline of SAW microfluidics could go next.
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