Digital acoustofluidics enables contactless and programmable liquid handling

Contamination is an obstacle to the functioning of microfluidic devices. Here the authors exploit acoustic streaming to manipulate droplets which float on a layer of immiscible oil. This prevents contamination and enables rewritability by which different fluids can be used on the same substrate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Steven Peiran Zhang, James Lata, Chuyi Chen, John Mai, Feng Guo, Zhenhua Tian, Liqiang Ren, Zhangming Mao, Po-Hsun Huang, Peng Li, Shujie Yang, Tony Jun Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05297-z