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Dried biofluid droplet morphologies for automated and scalable disease classification

Droplet
Dried biofluid droplets contain complex physicochemical information, yet their diagnostic potential remains largely limited due to the absence of an accessible, end‐to‐end analytical pipeline. This study presents a generalizable, high‐throughput pipeline
Anusuya Pal, Piyush Thakur, Amalesh Gope, Ryuta Uraki, Kawaoka Yoshihiro, Miho Yanagisawa   +5 more
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Sheath‐assisted microfluidics for elasto‐inertial manipulation of micro/nanoparticles: From theory to biomedical applications

Droplet
Bioparticle manipulation is vital for diagnostics, therapeutics, and biological research. Microfluidic technology provides high throughput and precise control, yet traditional methods using Newtonian fluids face challenges like cell damage due to high ...
Huan Wang, Yanting Wang, Yibo Cui, Limiao Yin, Jinwen Li, Yanxuan Wu, Piwu Li, Lei Zhao, Xiaowen Huang   +8 more
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Recent advances in boosting interfacial bubble dynamics with external fields

Droplet
The efficiency of industrial electrocatalytic reactions depends not only on generating gaseous products but also on their detachment from the catalyst surface.
Wenlu Xie, Yanwei Zhang, Yi Liu, Yiming Wei, Jing‐Li Luo, Chenyu Xu   +5 more
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Acoustic micro‐beam vortex generator for flow actuation inside droplets

Droplet
Controlling acoustic streaming inside a droplet has excellent potential for enabling fluid and particle operations such as mixing, separation, and aggregation in various applications.
Diego Sánchez‐Saldaña, Maria Fernandino, Carlos A. Dorao   +2 more
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When contact lines remember: Surface charge and the evolving interaction with defects

Droplet
The motion of contact line plays a crucial role in both natural phenomena and industrial processes. While it is well known that surface defects influence contact line dynamics, we demonstrate that their impact depends not only on geometry, size, and ...
Yaolei Xiang, Benedikt Straub, Diego Cortes, Hans‐Jürgen Butt, Kaloian Koynov   +4 more
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Quantifying contact line friction via oscillating droplet dynamics

Droplet, 2022
Gareth H. McKinley
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Magnetically responsive manipulation of droplets and bubbles

Droplet
Droplets and bubbles have a wide range of applications in industry, agriculture, and daily life, and their controllable manipulation is of significant scientific and technological importance. Versatile magnetically responsive manipulation strategies have
Shaojun Jiang, Dong Wu, Jiawen Li, Jiaru Chu, Yanlei Hu   +4 more
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Understanding pathogen transmission on inanimate surfaces: Insights from respiratory fluid droplet composition and drying dynamics

Droplet
This study investigates how pathogen‐laden respiratory droplets transfer diseases via inanimate surfaces. Respiratory fluid ejections containing pathogens pose a significant health threat, especially in high‐traffic areas such as hospitals, public ...
Abdur Rasheed, Kirti Parmar, Jason Joy Poopady, Siddhant Jain, Dipshikha Chakravortty, Saptarshi Basu   +5 more
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Surfactant‐mediated electro‐dewetting of droplets in oil for liquid‐shape manipulation

Droplet
The capability to manipulate liquid shape at the microscale has enabled numerous microfluidic devices. Due to its simple electric actuation, electrowetting‐on‐dielectric has been widely used in a variety of microfluidic applications that require ...
Qining Leo Wang, Penghao Tian, Chang‐Jin “CJ” Kim   +2 more
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Surface tension measurements reveal charge-driven surfactant depletion in microdroplets approaching the Rayleigh limit. [PDF]

Chem Sci
Ahmed F, Jacobs MI.
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