ArticleScience advances2020
Acoustic streaming vortices enable contactless, digital control of droplets.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Precision acoustofluidics for high-throughput mechanobiology in suspension cells.Science advances · 2026Article
- Lab on an end: Micromanipulation using the acoustohydrodynamic pillar array as an end effector.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Sound-controlled fluidic processor.Science advances · 2025Article
- An acoustofluidic embedding platform for rapid multiphase microparticle injection.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Droplet acoustofluidics: Recent progress and challenges.Biomicrofluidics · 2025Review
- Light-Responsive Materials in Droplet Manipulation for Biochemical Applications.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Review
- Acoustofluidic Tweezers Integrated with Droplet Sensing Enable Multifunctional Closed-Loop Droplet Manipulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- A Simple Pump-Free Approach to Generating High-Throughput Microdroplets Using Oscillating Microcone Arrays.Micromachines · 2024Article
- Needle-Plug/Piston-Based Modular Mesoscopic Design Paradigm Coupled With Microfluidic Device for Point-of-Care Pooled Testing.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Airborne Acoustic Vortex End Effector-based Contactless, Multi-mode, Programmable Control of Object Surfing.Advanced materials technologies · 2024Article
- Acousto-dielectric tweezers enable independent manipulation of multiple particles.Science advances · 2024Article
- Capillary wave tweezer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Aerosol jet printing of surface acoustic wave microfluidic devices.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2024Article
- Magnetocontrollable droplet mobility on liquid crystal-infused porous surfaces.Nano research · 2023Article
- Droplet Detection and Sorting System in Microfluidics: A Review.Micromachines · 2022Review
- A robot-assisted acoustofluidic end effector.Nature communications · 2022Article
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12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Advances in lab-on-a-chip technologies are driven by the pursuit of programmable microscale bioreactors or fluidic processors that mimic electronic functionality, scalability, and convenience. However, few fluidic mechanisms allow for basic logic operations on rewritable fluidic paths due to cross-contamination, which leads to random interference between "fluidic bits" or droplets. Here, we introduce a mechanism that allows for contact-free gating of individual droplets based on the scalable features of acoustic streaming vortices (ASVs). By shifting the hydrodynamic equilibrium positions inside interconnected ASVs with multitonal electrical signals, different functions such as controlling the routing and gating of droplets on rewritable fluidic paths are demonstrated with minimal biochemical cross-contamination. Electrical control of this ASV-based mechanism allows for unidirectional routing and active gating behaviors, which can potentially be scaled to functional fluidic processors that can regulate the flow of droplets in a manner similar to the current in transistor arrays.
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