ReviewAnnual review of biomedical engineering2014
Inertial focusing in microfluidics.
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- An inertial-based spiral device for separating rare tumor cells from liquid biopsies.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026Article
- Fouling-Free Inertial Microfluidic Cell Clarification for Lentivirus Manufacturing.Biotechnology and bioengineering · 2026Article
- Ridge-assisted micro positioning of cells in a channel.Science advances · 2026Article
- Recent advances in the biosensing platforms for sepsis diagnosis.RSC advances · 2026Review
- A Cascaded Dual Spiral Microfluidic Chip for Continuous Separation of Multicomponent Microparticles.Micromachines · 2026Article
- Suppressing Blood-Cell Migration Lag via Dean-Cycle Phase Regulation Enables High-Purity CTC Enrichment in an Inertial Microfluidic Array.Micromachines · 2026Article
- Computational methods for inertial microfluidics: recent advances and future perspectives.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Review
- A Numerical and Experimental Study on the Enrichment Performance of a Novel Multi-Physics Coupling Microchannel.Micromachines · 2025Article
- Ridge-assisted Micro Positioning of Cells and Particles in a Microchannel.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A Pump-Free, Hydraulic-Amplification Oscillatory Microfluidic Device for Continuous Particle and Cell Manipulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Sheathless Elasto-Inertial Focusing of Sub-25 Nm Particles in Straight Microchannels.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Article
- Isolation Techniques of Micro/Nano-Scaled Species for Biomedical Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Effects of Shear and Extensional Stresses on Cells: Investigation in a Spiral Microchannel and Contraction-Expansion Arrays.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2025Review
- Understanding the Stability of Poorly Covered Pickering Emulsions Using on-Chip Microfluidics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- The Latest Advances in Microfluidic DLD Cell Sorting Technology: The Optimization of Channel Design.Biosensors · 2025Review
- The design and manufacture of massively scalable inertial focusing prototype microfluidic devices.PloS one · 2025Article
- Spiral microchannels with concave cross-section for enhanced cancer cell inertial separation.Mikrochimica acta · 2024Article
- Parallelization of Curved Inertial Microfluidic Channels to Increase the Throughput of Simultaneous Microparticle Separation and Washing.Micromachines · 2024Article
- Continuous Focusing of Particles by AC-Electroosmosis and Induced Dipole Interactions.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2024Article
- Deciphering the Evolution of Inertial Migration in Serpentine Channels.Analytical chemistry · 2024Article
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Abstract
When Segré and Silberberg in 1961 witnessed particles in a laminar pipe flow congregating at an annulus in the pipe, scientists were perplexed and spent decades learning why such behavior occurred, finally understanding that it was caused by previously unknown forces on particles in an inertial flow. The advent of microfluidics opened a new realm of possibilities for inertial focusing in the processing of biological fluids and cellular suspensions and created a field that is now rapidly expanding. Over the past five years, inertial focusing has enabled high-throughput, simple, and precise manipulation of bodily fluids for a myriad of applications in point-of-care and clinical diagnostics. This review describes the theoretical developments that have made the field of inertial focusing what it is today and presents the key applications that will make inertial focusing a mainstream technology in the future.
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