Red blood cell trapping using single-beam acoustic tweezers in the Rayleigh regime [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Summary: Acoustic tweezers (ATs) are a promising technology that can trap and manipulate microparticles or cells with the focused ultrasound beam without physical contact.
Jinhee Yoo +3 more
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Holographic Acoustic Tweezers for 5-DoF Manipulation of Nanocarrier Clusters toward Targeted Drug Delivery [PDF]
Pharmaceutics, 2022 Acoustic tweezers provide unique capabilities in medical applications, such as contactless manipulation of small objects (e.g., cells, compounds or living things), from nanometer-sized extracellular vesicles to centimeter-scale structures.
Hiep Xuan Cao +7 more
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A Sensitivity-Enhanced Electrolyte-Gated Graphene Field-Effect Transistor Biosensor by Acoustic Tweezers [PDF]
Micromachines, 2021 Low-abundance biomolecule detection is very crucial in many biological and medical applications. In this paper, we present a novel electrolyte-gated graphene field-effect transistor (EGFET) biosensor consisting of acoustic tweezers to increase the ...
Yan Chen +4 more
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Self-Navigated 3D Acoustic Tweezers in Complex Media Based on Time Reversal [PDF]
Research, 2021 Acoustic tweezers have great application prospects because they allow noncontact and noninvasive manipulation of microparticles in a wide range of media.
Ye Yang +13 more
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Manipulations of micro/nanoparticles using gigahertz acoustic streaming tweezers [PDF]
Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering, 2022 Contactless acoustic manipulation of micro/nanoscale particles has attracted considerable attention owing to its near independence of the physical and chemical properties of the targets, making it universally applicable to almost all biological systems ...
Hang Wu +10 more
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Ultrasonic High-Resolution Imaging and Acoustic Tweezers Using Ultrahigh Frequency Transducer: Integrative Single-Cell Analysis [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Ultrasound imaging is a highly valuable tool in imaging human tissues due to its non-invasive and easily accessible nature. Despite advances in the field of ultrasound research, conventional transducers with frequencies lower than 20 MHz face limitations
Hayong Jung, K. Kirk Shung, Hae Gyun Lim
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Red blood cell trapping using single-beam acoustic tweezers in the Rayleigh regime [PDF]
iScienceJinhee Yoo +3 more
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Independent trapping and manipulation of microparticles using dexterous acoustic tweezers [PDF]
, 2014 An electronically controlled acoustic tweezer was used to demonstrate two acoustic manipulation phenomena: superposition of Bessel functions to allow independent manipulation of multiple particles and the use of higher-order Bessel functions to trap ...
Cochran, Sandy +6 more
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Joint subarray acoustic tweezers enable controllable cell translation, rotation, and deformation [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsContactless microscale tweezers are highly effective tools for manipulating, patterning, and assembling bioparticles. However, current tweezers are limited in their ability to comprehensively manipulate bioparticles, providing only partial control over ...
Liang Shen +10 more
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Design of Fresnel Lens-Type Multi-Trapping Acoustic Tweezers [PDF]
Sensors, 2016 In this paper, acoustic tweezers which use beam forming performed by a Fresnel zone plate are proposed. The performance has been demonstrated by finite element analysis, including the acoustic intensity, acoustic pressure, acoustic potential energy ...
You-Lin Tu +2 more
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