ReviewMicrosystems & nanoengineering2020
Viscoelastic microfluidics: progress and challenges.
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- Observation of a backward sliding motion for rollers on surfaces in viscoelastic fluid.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Multiphysics optomechanical sensing of a liquid on the micron scale.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Article
- Advances in machine learning-enhanced microfluidic cell sorting.Science advances · 2025Review
- Computational methods for inertial microfluidics: recent advances and future perspectives.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Review
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- Two-photon lithography-fabricated deterministic lateral displacement microfluidic system for efficient minicell purification in cancer therapy.Biomedical microdevices · 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
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- The Application of Stem Cells and Exosomes in Promoting Nerve Conduits for Peripheral Nerve Repair.Biomaterials research · 2025Review
- Microfluidic Nanoparticle Separation for Precision Medicine.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Deciphering the Evolution of Inertial Migration in Serpentine Channels.Analytical chemistry · 2024Article
- A Review of Research Progress in Microfluidic Bioseparation and Bioassay.Micromachines · 2024Review
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Abstract
The manipulation of cells and particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids in microchannels has drawn increasing attention, in part due to the ability for single-stream three-dimensional focusing in simple channel geometries. Improvement in the understanding of non-Newtonian effects on particle dynamics has led to expanding exploration of focusing and sorting particles and cells using viscoelastic microfluidics. Multiple factors, such as the driving forces arising from fluid elasticity and inertia, the effect of fluid rheology, the physical properties of particles and cells, and channel geometry, actively interact and compete together to govern the intricate migration behavior of particles and cells in microchannels. Here, we review the viscoelastic fluid physics and the hydrodynamic forces in such flows and identify three pairs of competing forces/effects that collectively govern viscoelastic migration. We discuss migration dynamics, focusing positions, numerical simulations, and recent progress in viscoelastic microfluidic applications as well as the remaining challenges. Finally, we hope that an improved understanding of viscoelastic flows in microfluidics can lead to increased sophistication of microfluidic platforms in clinical diagnostics and biomedical research.
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