ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025
Acoustofluidic Tweezers Integrated with Droplet Sensing Enable Multifunctional Closed-Loop Droplet Manipulation.
Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Applications of Acoustic Waves in Micro-Droplet Technologies.Biosensors · 2026Review
- Facile Preparation of Durable Photothermal-Responsive PDMS-CB Surfaces for Droplet Manipulation.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Spin-Orbit Angular Momentum Conversion in Coupled Nonparaxial Bessel Acoustic Vortices.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Integration of acoustic, optical, and electrical methods in picoliter droplet microfluidics for rare particles enrichment.Communications engineering · 2025Article
- Sound-controlled fluidic processor.Science advances · 2025Article
- Droplet acoustofluidics: Recent progress and challenges.Biomicrofluidics · 2025Review
- Acoustofluidics: Technology Advances and Applications from 2022 to 2024.Analytical chemistry · 2025Review
- Acoustofluidic Tweezers Integrated with Droplet Sensing Enable Multifunctional Closed-Loop Droplet Manipulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Droplet manipulation technologies with surface acoustic waves attract significant attention for applications in fluid handling and bioanalysis. However, existing technologies face challenges in automation, precision, and functional integration, limiting broader applications. In this work, a highly integrated droplet-sensing acoustofluidic tweezer is developed, incorporating orthogonally arranged slanted finger interdigital transducers and a custom-designed control and detection circuit system. Using a single acoustic device, this tweezer enables switchable acoustic droplet manipulation and detection, providing multifunctional closed-loop manipulation of on-chip microliter-scale droplets. The platform takes advantage of the wideband frequency response characteristics of the transducers, along with an automated droplet detection algorithm, enabling high-precision detection of central positions, edge positions, contact diameters, and the number of droplets. With this feedback, automated closed-loop control of various droplet manipulation functions, including transportation, merging, mixing, splitting, and internal particle enrichment, is achieved for the first time on a single acoustic platform. This significantly enhances the precision, efficiency, and fault tolerance of the manipulation process. This droplet-sensing acoustofluidic tweezer provides an innovative acoustic solution for droplet manipulation technologies in fields such as fluid processing and biosensing, demonstrating significant application potential.
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