Microfluidic techniques are effective tools for precise manipulation of particles and cells, whose enrichment and separation is crucial for a wide range of applications in biology, medicine, and chemistry. Recently, lateral particle migration induced by the intrinsic hydrodynamic effects in microchannels, such as inertia and elasticity, has shown its promise for high-throughput and label-free p...

DOI: 10.1002/admt.201700177 organisms. The manipulation of superparamagnetic microparticles, in particular, has a wide range of applications, including magnetic logic;[13] sorting and trapping of magnetically tagged proteins,[14] cells,[15] and microorganisms;[16] microfluidic mixing;[17] magnetoresistive biosensing;[18] immunoassays;[19] and lab-on-a-tube devices.[20] In principle, the manipul...

contact mechanics is related to the deformation study of solids that meet each other at one or more points. the physical and mathematical formulation of the problem is established upon the mechanics of materials and continuum mechanics and focuses on computations involving bodies with different characteristics in static or dynamic contact. contact mechanics gives essential information for the s...

This study presents a proof of concept to demonstrate the ability ultrasounds perform acoustophoretic processes in hybrid millifluidic resonators that include channels laterally embedded extremely soft media with physical properties close those liquids. In our experiments, particles are driven by acoustic radiation forces toward hydrodynamic/acoustic equilibrium positions similar way produced c...

Manipulation of granular materials such as sand or rice remains an unsolved problem due to challenges the difficulty defining their configuration modeling and particles interactions. Current approaches tend simplify material dynamics omit interactions between particles. In this paper, we propose use a graph-based representation model interaction rigid bodies manipulating it. This allows plannin...