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Acoustofluidic Rotational Manipulation of Cells and Organisms Using Oscillating Solid Structures.

ABSTRACT: A polydimethylsiloxane microchannel featuring sidewall sharp-edge structures and bare channels, and a piezoelement transducer is attached to a thin glass slide. When an external acoustic field is applied to the microchannel, the oscillation of the sharp-edge structures and the thin glass slide generate acoustic streaming flows which in turn rotate single cells and C. elegans in-plane and out-of-plane.

SUBMITTER: Ozcelik A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5388358 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Acoustofluidic Rotational Manipulation of Cells and Organisms Using Oscillating Solid Structures.

Ozcelik Adem A Nama Nitesh N Huang Po-Hsun PH Kaynak Murat M McReynolds Melanie R MR Hanna-Rose Wendy W Huang Tony Jun TJ

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20160812 37

A polydimethylsiloxane microchannel featuring sidewall sharp-edge structures and bare channels, and a piezoelement transducer is attached to a thin glass slide. When an external acoustic field is applied to the microchannel, the oscillation of the sharp-edge structures and the thin glass slide generate acoustic streaming flows which in turn rotate single cells and C. elegans in-plane and out-of-plane. ...[more]

PMID: 27515787

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Acoustofluidic Rotational Manipulation of Cells and Organisms Using Oscillating Solid Structures.

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Acoustofluidic Rotational Manipulation of Cells and Organisms Using Oscillating Solid Structures.

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