ArticleLab on a chip2019
Contactless, programmable acoustofluidic manipulation of objects on water.
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- Enhancing Microparticle Separation Efficiency in Acoustofluidic Chips via Machine Learning and Numerical Modeling.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- In-Petri-Dish Traveling and Standing Acoustic Wave-Assisted Fabrication of Anisotropic Collagen Hydrogels.Materials advances · 2025Article
- Streaming-based Tweezers for Routing, Engineering, and Manipulation of multiparticles: STREAM.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Article
- Acoustofluidic Tweezers Integrated with Droplet Sensing Enable Multifunctional Closed-Loop Droplet Manipulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Airborne Acoustic Vortex End Effector-based Contactless, Multi-mode, Programmable Control of Object Surfing.Advanced materials technologies · 2024Article
- Acoustic-propelled micro/nanomotors and nanoparticles for biomedical research, diagnosis, and therapeutic applications.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Programmable Droplet Microfluidics Based on Machine Learning and Acoustic Manipulation.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2022Article
- Holographic Acoustic Tweezers for 5-DoF Manipulation of Nanocarrier Clusters toward Targeted Drug Delivery.Pharmaceutics · 2022Article
- Atomistic modeling and rational design of optothermal tweezers for targeted applications.Nano research · 2021Article
- Contactless acoustic micro/nano manipulation: a paradigm for next generation applications in life sciences.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2020Review
- Hardware Design and Fault-Tolerant Synthesis for Digital Acoustofluidic Biochips.IEEE transactions on biomedical circuits and systems · 2020Article
- Determination of Dielectric Properties of Cells using AC Electrokinetic-based Microfluidic Platform: A Review of Recent Advances.Micromachines · 2020Review
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Abstract
Contact-free manipulation of small objects (e.g., cells, tissues, and droplets) using acoustic waves eliminates physical contact with structures and undesired surface adsorption. Pioneering acoustic-based, contact-free manipulation techniques (e.g., acoustic levitation) enable programmable manipulation but are limited by evaporation, bulky transducers, and inefficient acoustic coupling in air. Herein, we report an acoustofluidic mechanism for the contactless manipulation of small objects on water. A hollow-square-shaped interdigital transducer (IDT) is fabricated on lithium niobate (LiNbO3), immersed in water and used as a sound source to generate acoustic waves and as a micropump to pump fluid in the ±x and ±y orthogonal directions. As a result, objects which float adjacent to the excited IDT can be pushed unidirectionally (horizontally) in ±x and ±y following the directed acoustic wave propagation. A fluidic processor was developed by patterning IDT units in a 6-by-6 array. We demonstrate contactless, programmable manipulation on water of oil droplets and zebrafish larvae. This acoustofluidic-based manipulation opens avenues for the contactless, programmable processing of materials and small biosamples.
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