7 accepted papers
Microfluidic technology is currently a popular approach in the field of single-cell research, which is used to reveal the heterogeneity among cells. However, most of the existing microfluidic technologies for single-cell research lack the ability to control the microenvironment of single cells after
This paper presents a multi-particle parallel manipulation optoelectronic tweezers system integrated with computer vision technology, enabling the parallel and precise manipulation of dozens of particles. This system significantly enhances manipulation efficiency while maintaining high precision. By
Optoelectronic tweezers (OET) has shown great promise in various applications, especially in the precise manipulation of microparticles and microorganisms on a micron and nanometer scale. This technology significantly enhances the efficiency of single-cell sorting and the development of antibody-bas…
The untethered microrobots driven by multiple external physics fields have promising ability in minimally invasive disease treatments. One common type of the driving fields is gradient magnetic field, which can provide microrobots with adequate driving force in complicated environment. In this study…
This work presents a novel electrical method, implemented in the form of a microfluidic device, for cell arraying and target cell lysis. The microfluidic device contains a micro-well array on the photoconductive layer based on the optoelectronic tweezers (OET) method, where parallel cell manipulatio…
Magnetic-controlled micro-robots have promising applications in disease therapy due to their high targetability and drug utilization. Due to their unique deformable and divisible properties, ferrofluid robots have gained much attention in microchemical reaction chips and micromanipulation. This lett
Non-contact manipulation technology has extensive application in the manipulation and fabrication of micro/nanomaterials. However, the manipulation devices are often precise and complex, operated only by professionals and subject to site constraints. We propose a simple optoelectronic tweezer platfo…