(Nanowerk Spotlight) Precise and reproducible manipulation of synthetic and biological microscale objects in complex environments is essential for many practical biochip and microfluidic applications.

A research team from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an acoustic trapping chip that can provide three-dimensional ...

(A) Setup comprising a robotic arm, a glass capillary, a syringe pump, and an acoustofluidic device with integrated imaging. (B) Large-scale shear flow produced by rising bubbles. (C) Schematics of ...

The precise rotational manipulation of single cells or organisms is invaluable to many applications in biology, chemistry, physics and medicine. In this article, we describe an acoustic-based, on-chip ...

(Nanowerk News) Acoustic radiation force generated by ultrasonic standing wave is one of the forces with the ability of cell trapping. Cells can be trapped at either pressure nodes or anti-nodes ...