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Particle Enrichment In Longitudinal Standing Bulk Acoustic Wave Microfluidics, Mingyang Cui
Particle Enrichment In Longitudinal Standing Bulk Acoustic Wave Microfluidics, Mingyang Cui
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Separation, isolation, and enrichment of targeted nano- and microparticles are critical to a variety of biomedical applications from clinical research (development of therapeutics and diagnostics) to fundamental investigations that require concentration of specific cells from culture, separation of target species from heterogenous mixtures, or controlled perturbation of cells and microorganisms to determine their response to stimuli. Numerous techniques are available for bench-scale and medical settings; however, these traditional approaches are often labor intensive, time-consuming, costly, and/or require modification of the target. Efficiency and specificity are also lacking. Recently, techniques that exploit the similar scales of microfluidic technologies and the intrinsic …