Inertial microfluidics has been attracting considerable interest for size-based separation of particles and cells. The inertial forces can be manipulated by expanding the microchannel geometry, leading to formation of microvortices which selectively isolate and trap particles or cells from a mixture. In this work, we aim to enhance our understanding of particle trapping in such microvortices by...

The ability to study individual bacteria or subcellular organelles using inertial microfluidics is still nascent. This is due, in no small part, to the significant challenges associated with concentrating and separating specific sizes of micrometer and sub-micrometer bioparticles in a microfluidic format. In this study, using a rigid polymeric microfluidic network with optimized microchannel ge...

The presence and quantity of rare cells in the bloodstream of cancer patients provide a potentially accessible source for the early detection of invasive cancer and for monitoring the treatment of advanced diseases. The separation of rare cells from peripheral blood, as a "virtual and real-time liquid biopsy", is expected to replace conventional tissue biopsies of metastatic tumors for therapy ...

Abstract We report a unique tuneable analogue trend in particle focusing the laminar and weak viscoelastic regime of elasto-inertial flows. observe experimentally that particles circular cross-section microchannels can be tuned to any bandwidths lie between “Segre-Silberberg annulus” centre microcapillary. use direct numerical simulations investigate this phenomenon understand how minute amount...

accuracy of inertial navigation system (ins) is limited by inertial sensors imperfections. before using inertial sensors signals in the data fusion algorithm, noise removal method should be performed, in which, wavelet decomposition method is used. in this method the raw data is decomposed into high and low frequency data sets. in this study, wavelet multi-level resolution analysis (wmra) techn...