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Bisswanger S, Bonart H, Khaing PT, Hardt S. Liquid Surfaces with Chaotic Capillary Waves Exhibit an Effective Surface Tension. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 133:034001. [PMID: 39094147 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.034001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024]
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The influence of chaotic capillary waves on the time-averaged shape of a liquid volume is studied experimentally and theoretically. In that context, a liquid film containing a stable hole is subjected to Faraday waves. The waves induce a shrinkage of the hole compared to the static film, which can be described using the Young-Laplace equation by incorporating an effective capillary length. In the regime of chaotic Faraday waves, the presented theoretical model explains the hole shrinkage quantitatively, linking the effective capillary length to the wave energy. The effect of chaotic Faraday waves can be interpreted as a dynamic surface force that acts against surface tension.
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Zhang S, Orosco J, Friend J. Onset of Visible Capillary Waves from High-Frequency Acoustic Excitation. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:3699-3709. [PMID: 36857201 PMCID: PMC10018762 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c03403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2022] [Revised: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Remarkably, the interface of a fluid droplet will produce visible capillary waves when exposed to acoustic waves. For example, a small (∼1 μL) sessile droplet will oscillate at a low ∼102 Hz frequency when weakly driven by acoustic waves at ∼106 Hz frequency and beyond. We measured such a droplet's interfacial response to 6.6 MHz ultrasound to gain insight into the energy transfer mechanism that spans these vastly different time scales, using high-speed microscopic digital transmission holography, a unique method to capture three-dimensional surface dynamics at nanometer space and microsecond time resolutions. We show that low-frequency capillary waves are driven into existence via a feedback mechanism between the acoustic radiation pressure and the evolving shape of the fluid interface. The acoustic pressure is distributed in the standing wave cavity of the droplet, and as the shape of the fluid interface changes in response to the distributed pressure present on the interface, the standing wave field also changes shape, feeding back to produce changes in the acoustic radiation pressure distribution in the cavity. A physical model explicitly based upon this proposed mechanism is provided, and simulations using it were verified against direct observations of both the microscale droplet interface dynamics from holography and internal pressure distributions using microparticle image velocimetry. The pressure-interface feedback model accurately predicts the vibration amplitude threshold at which capillary waves appear, the subsequent amplitude and frequency of the capillary waves, and the distribution of the standing wave pressure field within the sessile droplet responsible for the capillary waves.
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- Shuai Zhang
- Medically
Advanced Devices Laboratory, Center for Medical Device Engineering
and Biomechanics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Jacobs School of Engineering, University
of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0411, United States
- Materials
Science and Engineering Program, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0411, United States
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- Medically
Advanced Devices Laboratory, Center for Medical Device Engineering
and Biomechanics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Jacobs School of Engineering, University
of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0411, United States
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- Medically
Advanced Devices Laboratory, Center for Medical Device Engineering
and Biomechanics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Jacobs School of Engineering, University
of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0411, United States
- Materials
Science and Engineering Program, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0411, United States
- Department
of Surgery, School of Medicine, University
of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Zhang H, Zhang Z, Grauby-Heywang C, Kellay H, Maali A. Air/Water Interface Rheology Probed by Thermal Capillary Waves. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:3332-3340. [PMID: 36802344 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c03193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to study the interfacial rheology of air/water interfaces by investigating the thermal capillary fluctuations of surfactant-loaded interfaces. These interfaces are formed by depositing an air bubble on a solid substrate immersed in a surfactant (Triton X-100) solution. An AFM cantilever, in contact with the north pole of the bubble, probes its thermal fluctuations (amplitude of the vibration versus the frequency). The measured power spectral density of the nanoscale thermal fluctuations presents several resonance peaks corresponding to the different vibration modes of the bubble. The measured damping versus the surfactant concentration of each mode presents a maximum and then decreases to a saturation value. The measurements are in good agreement with the model developed by Levich for the damping of capillary waves in the presence of surfactants. Our results show that the AFM cantilever in contact with a bubble is a powerful tool to probe the rheological properties of air/water interfaces.
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- Hao Zhang
- Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, Université de Bordeaux & CNRS, 33405 Talence, France
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- Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, Université de Bordeaux & CNRS, 33405 Talence, France
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- Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, Université de Bordeaux & CNRS, 33405 Talence, France
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- Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine, Université de Bordeaux & CNRS, 33405 Talence, France
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Orosco J, Friend J. Modeling fast acoustic streaming: Steady-state and transient flow solutions. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:045101. [PMID: 36397528 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.045101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Traditionally, acoustic streaming is assumed to be a steady-state, relatively slow fluid response to passing acoustic waves. This assumption, the so-called slow streaming assumption, was made over a century ago by Lord Rayleigh. It produces a tractable asymptotic perturbation analysis from the nonlinear governing equations, separating the acoustic field from the acoustic streaming that it generates. Unfortunately, this assumption is often invalid in the modern microacoustofluidics context, where the fluid flow and acoustic particle velocities are comparable. Despite this issue, the assumption is still widely used today, as there is no suitable alternative. We describe a mathematical method to supplant the classic approach and properly treat the spatiotemporal scale disparities present between the acoustics and remaining fluid dynamics. The method is applied in this work to well-known problems of semi-infinite extent defined by the Navier-Stokes equations, and preserves unsteady fluid behavior driven by the acoustic wave. The separation of the governing equations between the fast (acoustic) and slow (hydrodynamic) spatiotemporal scales are shown to naturally arise from the intrinsic properties of the fluid under forcing, not by arbitrary assumption beforehand. Solution of the unsteady streaming field equations provides physical insight into observed temporal evolution of bulk streaming flows that, to date, have not been modeled. A Burgers equation is derived from our method to represent unsteady flow. By then assuming steady flow, a Riccati equation is found to represent it. Solving these equations produces direct, concise insight into the nonlinearity of the acoustic streaming phenomenon alongside an absolute, universal upper bound of 50% for the energy efficiency in transducing acoustic energy input to the acoustic streaming energy output. Rigorous validation with respect to experimental and theoretical results from the classic literature is presented to connect this work to past efforts by many authors.
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- Jeremy Orosco
- Medically Advanced Devices Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, and Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., MC0411, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Medically Advanced Devices Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, and Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., MC0411, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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Biomechanical Sensing Using Gas Bubbles Oscillations in Liquids and Adjacent Technologies: Theory and Practical Applications. BIOSENSORS 2022; 12:bios12080624. [PMID: 36005019 PMCID: PMC9406219 DOI: 10.3390/bios12080624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Revised: 08/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Gas bubbles present in liquids underpin many natural phenomena and human-developed technologies that improve the quality of life. Since all living organisms are predominantly made of water, they may also contain bubbles—introduced both naturally and artificially—that can serve as biomechanical sensors operating in hard-to-reach places inside a living body and emitting signals that can be detected by common equipment used in ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging procedures. This kind of biosensor is the focus of the present article, where we critically review the emergent sensing technologies based on acoustically driven oscillations of bubbles in liquids and bodily fluids. This review is intended for a broad biosensing community and transdisciplinary researchers translating novel ideas from theory to experiment and then to practice. To this end, all discussions in this review are written in a language that is accessible to non-experts in specific fields of acoustics, fluid dynamics and acousto-optics.
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Liu J, Song W, Ma G, Li K. Faraday Instability in Viscous Fluids Covered with Elastic Polymer Films. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:polym14122334. [PMID: 35745910 PMCID: PMC9231276 DOI: 10.3390/polym14122334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2022] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Faraday instability has great application value in the fields of controlling polymer processing, micromolding colloidal lattices on structured suspensions, organizing particle layers, and conducting cell culture. To regulate Faraday instability, in this article, we attempt to introduce an elastic polymer film covering the surface of a viscous fluid layer and theoretically study the behaviors of the Faraday instability phenomenon and the effect of the elastic polymer film. Based on hydrodynamic theory, the Floquet theory is utilized to formulate its stability criterion, and the critical acceleration amplitude and critical wave number are calculated numerically. The results show that the critical acceleration amplitude for Faraday instability increases with three increasing bending stiffness of the elastic polymer film, and the critical wave number decreases with increasing bending stiffness. In addition, surface tension and viscosity also have important effects on the critical acceleration amplitude and critical wave number. The strategy of controlling Faraday instability by covering an elastic polymer film proposed in this paper has great application potential in new photonic devices, metamaterials, alternative energy, biology, and other fields.
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- Junxiu Liu
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Building Structure and Underground Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China;
- College of Civil Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China; (W.S.); (G.M.)
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- College of Civil Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China; (W.S.); (G.M.)
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- College of Civil Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China; (W.S.); (G.M.)
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Building Structure and Underground Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China;
- College of Civil Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230601, China; (W.S.); (G.M.)
- Correspondence:
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Maksymov IS, Huy Nguyen BQ, Pototsky A, Suslov S. Acoustic, Phononic, Brillouin Light Scattering and Faraday Wave-Based Frequency Combs: Physical Foundations and Applications. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:3921. [PMID: 35632330 PMCID: PMC9143010 DOI: 10.3390/s22103921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2022] [Revised: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Frequency combs (FCs)-spectra containing equidistant coherent peaks-have enabled researchers and engineers to measure the frequencies of complex signals with high precision, thereby revolutionising the areas of sensing, metrology and communications and also benefiting the fundamental science. Although mostly optical FCs have found widespread applications thus far, in general FCs can be generated using waves other than light. Here, we review and summarise recent achievements in the emergent field of acoustic frequency combs (AFCs), including phononic FCs and relevant acousto-optical, Brillouin light scattering and Faraday wave-based techniques that have enabled the development of phonon lasers, quantum computers and advanced vibration sensors. In particular, our discussion is centred around potential applications of AFCs in precision measurements in various physical, chemical and biological systems in conditions where using light, and hence optical FCs, faces technical and fundamental limitations, which is, for example, the case in underwater distance measurements and biomedical imaging applications. This review article will also be of interest to readers seeking a discussion of specific theoretical aspects of different classes of AFCs. To that end, we support the mainstream discussion by the results of our original analysis and numerical simulations that can be used to design the spectra of AFCs generated using oscillations of gas bubbles in liquids, vibrations of liquid drops and plasmonic enhancement of Brillouin light scattering in metal nanostructures. We also discuss the application of non-toxic room-temperature liquid-metal alloys in the field of AFC generation.
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- Ivan S. Maksymov
- Optical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia;
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- Optical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia;
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- Department of Mathematics, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia; (A.P.); (S.S.)
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- Department of Mathematics, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia; (A.P.); (S.S.)
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Huang QY, Le Y, Hu H, Wan ZJ, Ning J, Han JL. Experimental research on surface acoustic wave microfluidic atomization for drug delivery. Sci Rep 2022; 12:7930. [PMID: 35562384 PMCID: PMC9106708 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11132-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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This paper demonstrates that surface acoustic wave (SAW) atomization can produce suitable aerosol concentration and size distribution for efficient inhaled lung drug delivery and is a potential atomization device for asthma treatment. Using the SAW device, we present comprehensive experimental results exploring the complexity of the acoustic atomization process and the influence of input power, device frequency, and liquid flow rate on aerosol size distribution. It is hoped that these studies will explain the mechanism of SAW atomization aerosol generation and how they can be controlled. The insights from the high-speed flow visualization studies reveal that it is possible by setting the input power above 4.17 W, thus allowing atomization to occur from a relatively thin film, forming dense, monodisperse aerosols. Moreover, we found that the aerosol droplet size can be effectively changed by adjusting the input power and liquid flow rate to change the film conditions. In this work, we proposed a method to realize drug atomization by a microfluidic channel. A SU-8 flow channel was prepared on the surface of a piezoelectric substrate by photolithography technology. Combined with the silicon dioxide coating process and PDMS process closed microfluidic channel was prepared, and continuous drug atomization was provided to improve the deposition efficiency of drug atomization by microfluidic.
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- Qing-Yun Huang
- School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.,Shenzhen Polytechnic, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University; The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, 518020, Guangdong, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China
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- School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China
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Wang X, Mori Y, Tsuchiya K. Periodicity in ultrasonic atomization involving beads-fountain oscillations and mist generation: Effects of driving frequency. ULTRASONICS SONOCHEMISTRY 2022; 86:105997. [PMID: 35417794 PMCID: PMC9018148 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2022.105997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Revised: 03/14/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Ultrasonic atomization induced by high driving frequency, generally on the order of 1 MHz or higher, could involve a liquid fountain in the form of a corrugated jet, or a chain of "beads" of submillimeter diameter in contact. This study concerns dynamics/instability of such beads fountain, observed under lower input power density (≤ 6 W/cm2) of the "flat" ultrasound transducer with a "regulating" nozzle equipped, exhibiting time-varying characteristics with certain periodicity. High-speed, high-resolution images are processed for quantitative elucidation: frequency analysis (fast Fourier transform) and time-frequency analysis (discrete wavelet transform) are employed, respectively, to evaluate dominant frequencies of beads-surface oscillations and to reveal factor(s) triggering mist emergence. The resulting time variation in the measured (or apparent) fountain structure, associated with the recurring-beads size scalable to the ultrasound wavelength, subsumes periodic nature predictable from simple physical modeling as well as principle. It is further found that such dynamics in (time-series data for) the fountain structure at given height(s) along a series of beads would signal "bursting" of liquid droplets emanating out of a highly deformed bead often followed by a cloud of tiny droplets, or mist. In particular, the bursting appears to be not a completely random phenomenon but should concur with the fountain periodicity with a limited extent of probability.
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- Xiaolu Wang
- Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Doshisha Univ., Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
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- Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Doshisha Univ., Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan
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- Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Doshisha Univ., Kyotanabe, Kyoto 610-0321, Japan.
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Abubakar AA, Yilbas BS, Al-Qahtani H, Alzaydi A. Droplet motion on sonically excited hydrophobic meshes. Sci Rep 2022; 12:6759. [PMID: 35474095 PMCID: PMC9042877 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10697-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 03/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The sonic excitation of the liquid droplet on a hydrophobic mesh surface gives rise to a different oscillation behavior than that of the flat hydrophobic surface having the same contact angle. To assess the droplet oscillatory behavior over the hydrophobic mesh, the droplet motion is examined under the external sonic excitations for various mesh screen aperture ratios. An experiment is carried out and the droplet motion is recorded by a high-speed facility. The findings revealed that increasing sonic excitation frequencies enhance the droplet maximum displacement in vertical and horizontal planes; however, the vertical displacements remain larger than those of the horizontal displacements. The resonance frequency measured agrees well with the predictions and the excitation frequency at 105 Hz results in a droplet oscillation mode (n) of 4. The maximum displacement of the droplet surface remains larger for the flat hydrophobic surface than that of the mesh surface with the same contact angle. In addition, the damping factor is considerably influenced by the sonic excitation frequencies; hence, increasing sonic frequency enhances the damping factor, which becomes more apparent for the large mesh screen aperture ratios. The small-amplitude surface tension waves create ripples on the droplet surface.
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- Abba Abdulhamid Abubakar
- Mechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia. .,Interdisciplinary Research Center for Renewable Energy & Power Systems, KFUPM, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia. .,K.A. CARE Energy Research & Innovation Center at Dhahran, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. .,Turkish Japanese University of Science and Technology, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia
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Yang R, Liu W, Gao W, Kang D. Design of Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Transducer Based on Doped PDMS. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21093123. [PMID: 33946276 PMCID: PMC8124376 DOI: 10.3390/s21093123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2021] [Revised: 04/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The performance of the ultrasonic transducer will directly affect the accuracy of ultrasonic experimental measurement. Therefore, in order to meet the requirements of a wide band, a kind of annular 2-2-2 piezoelectric composite is proposed based on doped PDMS. In this paper, the transducer structure consisted of PZT-5A piezoelectric ceramics and PDMS doped with 3 wt.% Al2O3:SiO2 (1:6) powder, which constituted the piezoelectric composite. MATLAB and COMSOL software were used for simulation. Meanwhile, the electrode materials were selected. Then, the performance of the designed annular 2-2-2 ultrasonic transducer was tested. The simulation results show that when the polymer phase material of the piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer is doped PDMS, the piezoelectric phase and the ceramic substrate account for 70% of the total volume, the polymer phase accounts for 30% of the total volume, and the maximum frequency band width can reach 90 kHz. The experimental results show that the maximum bandwidth of −3 dB can reach 104 kHz when the frequency is 160 kHz. The results of the electrode test show that the use of Cu/Ti electrode improves the electrical conductivity of the single electrode. In this paper, the annular 2-2-2 transducer designed in the case of small volume had the characteristics of a wide frequency band, which was conducive to the miniaturization and integration of the transducer. Therefore, we believe that the annular 2-2-2 piezoelectric composite has broad application prospects.
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- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +86-139-3460-7107
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Ahmed H, Yang X, Ehrnst Y, Jeorje NN, Marqus S, Sherrell PC, El Ghazaly A, Rosen J, Rezk AR, Yeo LY. Ultrafast assembly of swordlike Cu 3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate) n metal-organic framework crystals with exposed active metal sites. NANOSCALE HORIZONS 2020; 5:1050-1057. [PMID: 32323688 DOI: 10.1039/d0nh00171f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Owing to their large surface area and high uptake capacity, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have attracted considerable attention as potential materials for gas storage, energy conversion, and electrocatalysis. Various strategies have recently been proposed to manipulate the MOF surface chemistry to facilitate exposure of the embedded metal centers at the crystal surface to allow more effective binding of target molecules to these active sites. Nevertheless, such strategies remain complex, often requiring strict control over the synthesis conditions to avoid blocking pore access, reduction in crystal quality, or even collapse of the entire crystal structure. In this work, we exploit the hydrodynamics and capillary resonance associated with acoustically-driven dynamically spreading and nebulizing thin films as a new method for ultrafast synthesis of swordlike Cu3(1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate)n (Cu-BTC) MOFs with unique monoclinic crystal structures (P21/n) distinct to that obtained via conventional bulk solvothermal synthesis, with 'swordlike' morphologies whose lengths far exceed their thicknesses. Through pulse modulation and taking advantage of the rapid solvent evaporation associated with the high nebulisation rates, we are also able to control the thicknesses of these large aspect ratio (width and length with respect to the thickness) crystals by arresting their vertical growth, which, in turn, allows exposure of the metal active sites at the crystal surface. An upshot of such active site exposure on the crystal surface is the concomitant enhancement in the conductivity of the MOF, evident from the improvement in its current density by two orders of magnitude.
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- Heba Ahmed
- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
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Maksymov IS, Pototsky A. Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8564. [PMID: 32444625 PMCID: PMC7244598 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65295-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Biological cells and many living organisms are mostly made of liquids and therefore, by analogy with liquid drops, they should exhibit a range of fundamental nonlinear phenomena such as the onset of standing surface waves. Here, we test four common species of earthworm to demonstrate that vertical vibration of living worms lying horizontally on a flat solid surface results in the onset of subharmonic Faraday-like body waves, which is possible because earthworms have a hydrostatic skeleton with a flexible skin and a liquid-filled body cavity. Our findings are supported by theoretical analysis based on a model of parametrically excited vibrations in liquid-filled elastic cylinders using material parameters of the worm's body reported in the literature. The ability to excite nonlinear subharmonic body waves in a living organism could be used to probe, and potentially to control, important biophysical processes such as the propagation of nerve impulses, thereby opening up avenues for addressing biological questions of fundamental impact.
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- Ivan S Maksymov
- Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia.
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- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia.
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Rezk AR, Ahmed H, Ramesan S, Yeo LY. High Frequency Sonoprocessing: A New Field of Cavitation-Free Acoustic Materials Synthesis, Processing, and Manipulation. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2020; 8:2001983. [PMID: 33437572 PMCID: PMC7788597 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202001983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
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Ultrasound constitutes a powerful means for materials processing. Similarly, a new field has emerged demonstrating the possibility for harnessing sound energy sources at considerably higher frequencies (10 MHz to 1 GHz) compared to conventional ultrasound (⩽3 MHz) for synthesizing and manipulating a variety of bulk, nanoscale, and biological materials. At these frequencies and the typical acoustic intensities employed, cavitation-which underpins most sonochemical or, more broadly, ultrasound-mediated processes-is largely absent, suggesting that altogether fundamentally different mechanisms are at play. Examples include the crystallization of novel morphologies or highly oriented structures; exfoliation of 2D quantum dots and nanosheets; polymer nanoparticle synthesis and encapsulation; and the possibility for manipulating the bandgap of 2D semiconducting materials or the lipid structure that makes up the cell membrane, the latter resulting in the ability to enhance intracellular molecular uptake. These fascinating examples reveal how the highly nonlinear electromechanical coupling associated with such high-frequency surface vibration gives rise to a variety of static and dynamic charge generation and transfer effects, in addition to molecular ordering, polarization, and assembly-remarkably, given the vast dimensional separation between the acoustic wavelength and characteristic molecular length scales, or between the MHz-order excitation frequencies and typical THz-order molecular vibration frequencies.
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- Amgad R. Rezk
- Micro/Nanophysics Research LaboratorySchool of EngineeringRMIT UniversityMelbourneVIC3000Australia
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research LaboratorySchool of EngineeringRMIT UniversityMelbourneVIC3000Australia
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research LaboratorySchool of EngineeringRMIT UniversityMelbourneVIC3000Australia
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research LaboratorySchool of EngineeringRMIT UniversityMelbourneVIC3000Australia
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Khalid M, Ray A, Cohen S, Tassieri M, Demčenko A, Tseng D, Reboud J, Ozcan A, Cooper JM. Computational Image Analysis of Guided Acoustic Waves Enables Rheological Assessment of Sub-nanoliter Volumes. ACS NANO 2019; 13:11062-11069. [PMID: 31490647 PMCID: PMC6812326 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b03219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Accepted: 09/06/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We present a method for the computational image analysis of high frequency guided sound waves based upon the measurement of optical interference fringes, produced at the air interface of a thin film of liquid. These acoustic actuations induce an affine deformation of the liquid, creating a lensing effect that can be readily observed using a simple imaging system. We exploit this effect to measure and analyze the spatiotemporal behavior of the thin liquid film as the acoustic wave interacts with it. We also show that, by investigating the dynamics of the relaxation processes of these deformations when actuation ceases, we are able to determine the liquid's viscosity using just a lens-free imaging system and a simple disposable biochip. Contrary to all other acoustic-based techniques in rheology, our measurements do not require monitoring of the wave parameters to obtain quantitative values for fluid viscosities, for sample volumes as low as 200 pL. We envisage that the proposed methods could enable high throughput, chip-based, reagent-free rheological studies within very small samples.
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- Muhammad
Arslan Khalid
- Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, United Kingdom
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- Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department, Bioengineering Department, California Nano Systems Institute (CNSI), Neuroscience, and Department of Surgery, David Geffen School
of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, United States
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- Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department, Bioengineering Department, California Nano Systems Institute (CNSI), Neuroscience, and Department of Surgery, David Geffen School
of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, United States
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- Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, United Kingdom
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- Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, United Kingdom
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- Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department, Bioengineering Department, California Nano Systems Institute (CNSI), Neuroscience, and Department of Surgery, David Geffen School
of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, United States
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- Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, United Kingdom
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- Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department, Bioengineering Department, California Nano Systems Institute (CNSI), Neuroscience, and Department of Surgery, David Geffen School
of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), California, United States
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- Division of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, United Kingdom
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Matsuura H, Furukawa H, Tanikawa T, Hashimoto H. Performance of five ultrasonic transducers modified for efficient atomization. THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2019; 146:626. [PMID: 31370627 DOI: 10.1121/1.5118241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 06/30/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Performance of five ultrasonic transducers modified with different shapes of electrodes is investigated for efficient atomization. A circular silver electrode, which is conventionally used as standard on a transducer, is chemically replaced with five shapes of silver electrodes (circular, toroidal, singlet, doublet, and cross). Each electrode reflects its precise shape on the water surface and statically forms characteristic three-dimensional geometry of a water column. The modified electrode also affects the dynamics of this water column, generating two types of wobbling on the column and inducing three types of atomization depending on the shape of the electrodes. Statistical analysis indicates that the shape of the electrode on an ultrasonic transducer affects the speed of atomization, showing that the singlet electrode exhibits the highest speed of atomization (4 mg/s). The mechanisms of atomization are analyzed from the viewpoint of energy transformation with reference to mass transformation of the oscillating liquid, indicating that the vibration energy of the transducer is transferred to the water film through resonance, consuming this vibration energy with four kinds of energy such as kinetic energy of atomized mists and work function of atomization, which are defined in this study. This analysis clarifies why the speed of atomization increases with a decreasing amount of water on the transducer. Application of the appropriate shape of an electrode will greatly contribute to the fields of engineering, medicine, and biology where various types of atomization are highly desired as the situation demands.
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- Hiroshi Matsuura
- Engineering Department, Aichi University of Technology, Aichi 443-0047, Japan
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- Electronics and Photonics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
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- Intelligent Systems Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8564, Japan
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Communication Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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Acoustomicrofluidic assembly of oriented and simultaneously activated metal-organic frameworks. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2282. [PMID: 31123252 PMCID: PMC6533252 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10173-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The high surface area and porosity, and limitless compound and network combinations between the metal ions and organic ligands making up metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) offer tremendous opportunities for their use in many applications. While numerous methods have been proposed for the synthesis of MOF powders, it is often difficult to obtain oriented crystals with these techniques. Further, the need for additional post-synthesis steps to activate the crystals and release them from the substrate presents a considerable production challenge. Here, we report an acoustically-driven microcentrifugation platform that facilitates fast convective solutal transport, allowing the synthesis of MOF crystals in as short as five minutes. The crystals are not only oriented due to long-range out-of-plane superlattice ordering aided by molecular dipole polarization under the acoustoelectric coupling, but also simultaneously activated during the synthesis process. The growth of oriented crystalline metal–organic frameworks is desirable to exploit their surface area and porosity, but has proven difficult. Here the authors fabricate highly-oriented and simultaneously activated free-standing MOFs by an acoustically driven microcentrifugation platform.
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Akther A, Castro JO, Mousavi Shaegh SA, Rezk AR, Yeo LY. Miniaturised acoustofluidic tactile haptic actuator. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:4146-4152. [PMID: 31050347 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00479c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Tactile haptic feedback is an important consideration in the design of advanced human-machine interfaces, particularly in an age of increasing reliance on automation and artificial intelligence. In this work, we show that the typical nanometer-order surface displacement amplitudes of piezoelectric transducers-which are too small to be detectable by the human touch, and constitute a significant constraint in their use for tactile haptic surface actuation-can be circumvented by coupling the vibration into a liquid to drive the deflection of a thermoplastic membrane. In particular, transmission of the sound energy from the standing wave vibration generated along a piezoelectric transducer into a microfluidic chamber atop which the membrane is attached is observed to amplify the mechanical vibration signalling through both the acoustic radiation pressure and the viscous normal stress acting on the membrane-the latter arising due to the acoustic streaming generated as the sound wave propagates through the liquid-to produce 100 μm-order static deflections of the membrane, upon which approximately 0.5 μm dynamic vibrations at frequencies around 1 kHz are superimposed; both these static and dynamic responses are within the perception range for human finger sensation. The large static deformation, the relatively fast response time, and the ability to incorporate a dynamic vibrotactile response together with the small size and potential for integration of the device into large scale arrays make this mechanism well suited for driving actuation in devices which require tactile haptic responses.
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- Asma Akther
- School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia.
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Connacher W, Zhang N, Huang A, Mei J, Zhang S, Gopesh T, Friend J. Micro/nano acoustofluidics: materials, phenomena, design, devices, and applications. LAB ON A CHIP 2018; 18:1952-1996. [PMID: 29922774 DOI: 10.1039/c8lc00112j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Acoustic actuation of fluids at small scales may finally enable a comprehensive lab-on-a-chip revolution in microfluidics, overcoming long-standing difficulties in fluid and particle manipulation on-chip. In this comprehensive review, we examine the fundamentals of piezoelectricity, piezoelectric materials, and transducers; revisit the basics of acoustofluidics; and give the reader a detailed look at recent technological advances and current scientific discussions in the discipline. Recent achievements are placed in the context of classic reports for the actuation of fluid and particles via acoustic waves, both within sessile drops and closed channels. Other aspects of micro/nano acoustofluidics are examined: atomization, translation, mixing, jetting, and particle manipulation in the context of sessile drops and fluid mixing and pumping, particle manipulation, and formation of droplets in the context of closed channels, plus the most recent results at the nanoscale. These achievements will enable applications across the disciplines of chemistry, biology, medicine, energy, manufacturing, and we suspect a number of others yet unimagined. Basic design concepts and illustrative applications are highlighted in each section, with an emphasis on lab-on-a-chip applications.
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- William Connacher
- Medically Advanced Devices Laboratory, Center for Medical Devices and Instrumentation, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0411, USA.
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Kurashina Y, Takemura K, Friend J. Cell agglomeration in the wells of a 24-well plate using acoustic streaming. LAB ON A CHIP 2017; 17:876-886. [PMID: 28184386 DOI: 10.1039/c6lc01310d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Cell agglomeration is essential both to the success of drug testing and to the development of tissue engineering. Here, a MHz-order acoustic wave is used to generate acoustic streaming in the wells of a 24-well plate to drive particle and cell agglomeration. Acoustic streaming is known to manipulate particles in microfluidic devices, and even provide concentration in sessile droplets, but concentration of particles or cells in individual wells has never been shown, principally due to the drag present along the periphery of the fluid in such a well. The agglomeration time for a range of particle sizes suggests that shear-induced migration plays an important role in the agglomeration process. Particles with a diameter of 45 μm agglomerated into a suspended pellet under exposure to 2.134 MHz acoustic waves at 1.5 W in 30 s. Additionally, BT-474 cells also agglomerated as adherent masses at the center bottom of the wells of tissue-culture treated 24-well plates. By switching to low cell binding 24-well plates, the BT-474 cells formed suspended agglomerations that appeared to be spheroids, fully fifteen times larger than any cell agglomerates without the acoustic streaming. In either case, the viability and proliferation of the cells were maintained despite acoustic irradiation and streaming. Intermittent excitation was effective in avoiding temperature excursions, consuming only 75 mW per well on average, presenting a convenient means to form fully three-dimensional cellular masses potentially useful for tissue, cancer, and drug research.
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- Yuta Kurashina
- School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan and Center for Medical Devices and Instrumentation, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California-San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Center for Medical Devices and Instrumentation, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California-San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
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Mahravan E, Naderan H, Damangir E. Frequency and wavelength prediction of ultrasonic induced liquid surface waves. ULTRASONICS 2016; 72:184-190. [PMID: 27566141 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2016.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Revised: 07/28/2016] [Accepted: 08/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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A theoretical investigation of parametric excitation of liquid free surface by a high frequency sound wave is preformed, using potential flow theory. Pressure and velocity distributions, resembling the sound wave, are applied to the free surface of the liquid. It is found that for impinging wave two distinct capillary frequencies will be excited: One of them is the same as the frequency of the sound wave, and the other is equal to the natural frequency corresponding to a wavenumber equal to the horizontal wavenumber of the sound wave. When the wave propagates in vertical direction, mathematical formulation leads to an equation, which has resonance frequency equal to half of the excitation frequency. This can explain an important contradiction between the frequency and the wavelength of capillary waves in the two cases of normal and inclined interaction of the sound wave and the free surface of the liquid.
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- Ehsan Mahravan
- Parallel Processing Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Ave, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran
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Riaud A, Baudoin M, Thomas JL, Bou Matar O. SAW Synthesis With IDTs Array and the Inverse Filter: Toward a Versatile SAW Toolbox for Microfluidics and Biological Applications. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS, FERROELECTRICS, AND FREQUENCY CONTROL 2016; 63:1601-1607. [PMID: 28873055 DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2016.2558583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are versatile tools to manipulate fluids at small scales for microfluidics and biological applications. A nonexhaustive list of operations that can be performed with SAW includes sessile droplet displacement, atomization, division, and merging but also the actuation of fluids embedded in microchannels or the manipulation of suspended particles. However, each of these operations requires a specific design of the wave generation system, the so-called interdigitated transducers (IDTs). Depending on the application, it might indeed be necessary to generate focused or plane, propagating or standing, and aligned or shifted waves. Furthermore, the possibilities offered by more complex wave fields such as acoustical vortices for particle tweezing and liquid twisting cannot be explored with classical IDTs. In this paper, we show that the inverse filter technique coupled with an IDTs array enables us to synthesize all classical wave fields used in microfluidics and biological applications with a single multifunctional platform. It also enables us to generate swirling SAWs, whose potential for the on-chip synthesis of tailored acoustical vortices has been demonstrated lately. The possibilities offered by this platform are illustrated by performing many operations successively on sessile droplets with the same system.
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Ang KM, Yeo LY, Hung YM, Tan MK. Amplitude modulation schemes for enhancing acoustically-driven microcentrifugation and micromixing. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2016; 10:054106. [PMID: 27703592 PMCID: PMC5035302 DOI: 10.1063/1.4963103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/08/2016] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The ability to drive microcentrifugation for efficient micromixing and particle concentration and separation on a microfluidic platform is critical for a wide range of lab-on-a-chip applications. In this work, we investigate the use of amplitude modulation to enhance the efficiency of the microcentrifugal recirculation flows in surface acoustic wave microfluidic systems, thus concomitantly reducing the power consumption in these devices for a given performance requirement-a crucial step in the development of miniaturized, integrated circuits for true portable functionality. In particular, we show that it is possible to obtain an increase of up to 60% in the acoustic streaming velocity in a microdroplet with kHz order modulation frequencies due to the intensification in Eckart streaming; the streaming velocity is increasing as the modulation index is increased. Additionally, we show that it is possible to exploit this streaming enhancement to effect improvements in the speed of particle concentration by up to 70% and the efficiency of micromixing by 50%, together with a modest decrease in the droplet temperature.
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- Kar M Ang
- School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia , 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, RMIT University , Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
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- School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia , 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
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- School of Engineering, Monash University Malaysia , 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
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Bussonnière A, Baudoin M, Brunet P, Matar OB. Dynamics of sessile and pendant drops excited by surface acoustic waves: Gravity effects and correlation between oscillatory and translational motions. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:053106. [PMID: 27300977 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.053106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2015] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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When sessile droplets are excited by ultrasonic traveling surface acoustic waves (SAWs), they undergo complex dynamics with both oscillations and translational motion. While the nature of the Rayleigh-Lamb quadrupolar drop oscillations has been identified, their origin and their influence on the drop mobility remains unexplained. Indeed, the physics behind this peculiar dynamics is complex with nonlinearities involved both at the excitation level (acoustic streaming and radiation pressure) and in the droplet response (nonlinear oscillations and contact line dynamics). In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of sessile and pendant drops excited by SAWs. For pendant drops, so-far unreported dynamics are observed close to the drop detachment threshold with the suppression of the translational motion. Away from this threshold, the comparison between pendant and sessile drop dynamics allows us to identify the role played by gravity or, more generally, by an initial or dynamically induced stretching of the drop. In turn, we elucidate the origin of the resonance frequency shift, as well as the origin of the strong correlation between oscillatory and translational motion. We show that for sessile drops, the velocity is mainly determined by the amplitude of oscillation and that the saturation observed is due to the nonlinear dependence of the drop response frequency on the dynamically induced stretching.
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- A Bussonnière
- Université Lille 1, International Laboratory LEMAC/LICS, IEMN, UMR CNRS 8520, Avenue Poincaré, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Université Lille 1, International Laboratory LEMAC/LICS, IEMN, UMR CNRS 8520, Avenue Poincaré, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR CNRS 7057, Université Paris Diderot, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, 75205 Paris cedex 13, France
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- Université Lille 1, International Laboratory LEMAC/LICS, IEMN, UMR CNRS 8520, Avenue Poincaré, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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Destgeer G, Cho H, Ha BH, Jung JH, Park J, Sung HJ. Acoustofluidic particle manipulation inside a sessile droplet: four distinct regimes of particle concentration. LAB ON A CHIP 2016; 16:660-7. [PMID: 26755271 DOI: 10.1039/c5lc01104c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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In this study, we have investigated the motion of polystyrene microparticles inside a sessile droplet of water actuated by surface acoustic waves (SAWs), which produce an acoustic streaming flow (ASF) and impart an acoustic radiation force (ARF) on the particles. We have categorized four distinct regimes (R1-R4) of particle aggregation that depend on the particle diameter, the SAW frequency, the acoustic wave field (travelling or standing), the acoustic waves' attenuation length, and the droplet volume. The particles are concentrated at the centre of the droplet in the form of a bead (R1), around the periphery of the droplet in the form of a ring (R2), at the side of the droplet in the form of an isolated island (R3), and close to the centre of the droplet in the form of a smaller ring (R4). The ASF-based drag force, the travelling or standing SAW-based ARF, and the centrifugal force are utilized in various combinations to produce these distinct regimes. For simplicity, we fixed the fluid volume at 5 μL, varied the SAW actuation frequency (10, 20, 80, and 133 MHz), and tested several particle diameters in the range 1-30 μm to explicitly demonstrate the regimes R1-R4. We have further demonstrated the separation of particles (1 and 10 μm, 3 and 5 μm) using mixed regime configurations (R1 and R2, R2 and R4, respectively).
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- Ghulam Destgeer
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Korea.
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Manor O, Rezk AR, Friend JR, Yeo LY. Dynamics of liquid films exposed to high-frequency surface vibration. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:053015. [PMID: 26066257 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.053015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We derive a generalized equation that governs the spreading of liquid films under high-frequency (MHz-order) substrate vibration in the form of propagating surface waves and show that this single relationship is universally sufficient to collectively describe the rich and diverse dynamic phenomena recently observed for the transport of oil films under such substrate excitation, in particular, Rayleigh surface acoustic waves. In contrast to low-frequency (Hz- to kHz-order) vibration-induced wetting phenomena, film spreading at such high frequencies arises from convective drift generated by the viscous periodic flow localized in a region characterized by the viscous penetration depth β(-1)≡(2μ/ρω)(1/2) adjacent to the substrate that is invoked directly by its vibration; μ and ρ are the viscosity and the density of the liquid, respectively, and ω is the excitation frequency. This convective drift is responsible for driving the spreading of thin films of thickness h≪k(l)(-1), which spread self-similarly as t(1/4) along the direction of the drift corresponding to the propagation direction of the surface wave, k(l) being the wave number of the compressional acoustic wave that forms in the liquid due to leakage of the surface wave energy from the substrate into the liquid and t the time. Films of greater thicknesses h∼k(l)(-1)≫β(-1), in contrast, are observed to spread with constant velocity but in a direction that opposes the drift and surface wave propagation due to the attenuation of the acoustic wave in the liquid. The universal equation derived allows for the collective prediction of the spreading of these thin and thick films in opposing directions.
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- Ofer Manor
- Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
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Simon JC, Sapozhnikov OA, Khokhlova VA, Crum LA, Bailey MR. Ultrasonic atomization of liquids in drop-chain acoustic fountains. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS 2015; 766:129-146. [PMID: 25977591 PMCID: PMC4428615 DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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When focused ultrasound waves of moderate intensity in liquid encounter an air interface, a chain of drops emerges from the liquid surface to form what is known as a drop-chain fountain. Atomization, or the emission of micro-droplets, occurs when the acoustic intensity exceeds a liquid-dependent threshold. While the cavitation-wave hypothesis, which states that atomization arises from a combination of capillary-wave instabilities and cavitation bubble oscillations, is currently the most accepted theory of atomization, more data on the roles of cavitation, capillary waves, and even heat deposition or boiling would be valuable. In this paper, we experimentally test whether bubbles are a significant mechanism of atomization in drop-chain fountains. High-speed photography was used to observe the formation and atomization of drop-chain fountains composed of water and other liquids. For a range of ultrasonic frequencies and liquid sound speeds, it was found that the drop diameters approximately equalled the ultrasonic wavelengths. When water was exchanged for other liquids, it was observed that the atomization threshold increased with shear viscosity. Upon heating water, it was found that the time to commence atomization decreased with increasing temperature. Finally, water was atomized in an overpressure chamber where it was found that atomization was significantly diminished when the static pressure was increased. These results indicate that bubbles, generated by either acoustic cavitation or boiling, contribute significantly to atomization in the drop-chain fountain.
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- Julianna C. Simon
- Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
- Email address for correspondence:
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- Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
- Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
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- Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
- Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
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- Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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- Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
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Rezk AR, Yeo LY, Friend JR. Poloidal flow and toroidal particle ring formation in a sessile drop driven by megahertz order vibration. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:11243-11247. [PMID: 25186138 DOI: 10.1021/la502301f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Poloidal flow is curiously formed in a microliter sessile water drop over 157-225 MHz because of acoustic streaming from three-dimensional standing Lamb waves in a lithium niobate substrate. The flow possesses radial symmetry with downwelling at the center and upwelling around the periphery of the drop. Outside this frequency range, the attenuation occurs over a length scale incompatible with the drop size and the poloidal flow vanishes. Remarkably, shear-induced migration was found to drive toroidal particle ring formation with diameters inversely proportional to the frequency of the acoustic irradiation.
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- Amgad R Rezk
- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University , Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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Riaud A, Baudoin M, Thomas JL, Bou Matar O. Cyclones and attractive streaming generated by acoustical vortices. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 90:013008. [PMID: 25122370 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.013008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Acoustical and optical vortices have attracted great interest due to their ability to capture and manipulate particles with the use of radiation pressure. Here we show that acoustical vortices can also induce axial vortical flow reminiscent of cyclones, whose topology can be controlled by adjusting the properties of the acoustical beam. In confined geometry, the phase singularity enables generating "attractive streaming" with the flow directed toward the transducer. This opens perspectives for contactless vortical flow control.
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- Antoine Riaud
- Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et Nanotechnologie (IEMN), LIA LICS, Université Lille 1 and EC Lille, UMR CNRS 8520, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France and CNRS UMR 7588, UPMC Université Paris 06, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), F-75005 Paris, France
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- Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et Nanotechnologie (IEMN), LIA LICS, Université Lille 1 and EC Lille, UMR CNRS 8520, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- CNRS UMR 7588, UPMC Université Paris 06, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), F-75005 Paris, France
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- Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et Nanotechnologie (IEMN), LIA LICS, Université Lille 1 and EC Lille, UMR CNRS 8520, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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Rajapaksa A, Qi A, Yeo LY, Coppel R, Friend JR. Enabling practical surface acoustic wave nebulizer drug delivery via amplitude modulation. LAB ON A CHIP 2014; 14:1858-65. [PMID: 24740643 DOI: 10.1039/c4lc00232f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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A practical, commercially viable microfluidic device relies upon the miniaturization and integration of all its components--including pumps, circuitry, and power supply--onto a chip-based platform. Surface acoustic waves (SAW) have become popular in microfluidic manipulation, in solving the problems of microfluidic manipulation, but practical applications employing SAW still require more power than available via a battery. Introducing amplitude modulation at 0.5-40 kHz in SAW nebulization, which requires the highest energy input levels of all known SAW microfluidic processes, halves the power required to 1.5 W even while including the power in the sidebands, suitable for small lithium ion batteries, and maintains the nebulization rate, size, and size distributions vital to drug inhalation therapeutics. This simple yet effective means to enable an integrated SAW microfluidics device for nebulization exploits the relatively slow hydrodynamics and is furthermore shown to deliver shear-sensitive biomolecules--plasmid DNA and antibodies as exemplars of future pulmonary gene and vaccination therapies--undamaged in the nebulized mist. Altogether, the approach demonstrates a means to offer truly micro-scale microfluidics devices in a handheld, battery powered SAW nebulization device.
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- Anushi Rajapaksa
- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800 Australia
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Deike L, Berhanu M, Falcon E. Energy flux measurement from the dissipated energy in capillary wave turbulence. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:023003. [PMID: 25353567 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.023003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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We study experimentally the influence of dissipation on stationary capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a liquid by changing its viscosity. We observe that the frequency power-law scaling of the capillary spectrum departs significantly from its theoretical value when the dissipation is increased. The energy dissipated by capillary waves is also measured and found to increase nonlinearly with the mean power injected within the liquid. Here we propose an experimental estimation of the energy flux at every scale of the capillary cascade. The latter is found to be nonconstant through the scales. For fluids of low enough viscosity, we found that both capillary spectrum scalings with the frequency and the newly defined mean energy flux are in good agreement with wave turbulence theory. The Kolmogorov-Zakharov constant is then experimentally estimated and compared to its theoretical value.
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- Luc Deike
- Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, MSC, UMR 7057 CNRS, F-75 013 Paris, France
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- Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, MSC, UMR 7057 CNRS, F-75 013 Paris, France
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- Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, MSC, UMR 7057 CNRS, F-75 013 Paris, France
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Tarbell JM, Shi ZD, Dunn J, Jo H. Fluid Mechanics, Arterial Disease, and Gene Expression. ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS 2014; 46:591-614. [PMID: 25360054 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-010313-141418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 262] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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This review places modern research developments in vascular mechanobiology in the context of hemodynamic phenomena in the cardiovascular system and the discrete localization of vascular disease. The modern origins of this field are traced, beginning in the 1960s when associations between flow characteristics, particularly blood flow-induced wall shear stress, and the localization of atherosclerotic plaques were uncovered, and continuing to fluid shear stress effects on the vascular lining endothelial) cells (ECs), including their effects on EC morphology, biochemical production, and gene expression. The earliest single-gene studies and genome-wide analyses are considered. The final section moves from the ECs lining the vessel wall to the smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts within the wall that are fluid me chanically activated by interstitial flow that imposes shear stresses on their surfaces comparable with those of flowing blood on EC surfaces. Interstitial flow stimulates biochemical production and gene expression, much like blood flow on ECs.
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- John M Tarbell
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031
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- Developmental Biology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY 10065
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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Dentry MB, Yeo LY, Friend JR. Frequency effects on the scale and behavior of acoustic streaming. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 89:013203. [PMID: 24580352 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.89.013203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2013] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Acoustic streaming underpins an exciting range of fluid manipulation phenomena of rapidly growing significance in microfluidics, where the streaming often assumes the form of a steady, laminar jet emanating from the device surface, driven by the attenuation of acoustic energy within the beam of sound propagating through the liquid. The frequencies used to drive such phenomena are often chosen ad hoc to accommodate fabrication and material issues. In this work, we seek a better understanding of the effects of sound frequency and power on acoustic streaming. We present and, using surface acoustic waves, experimentally verify a laminar jet model that is based on the turbulent jet model of Lighthill, which is appropriate for acoustic streaming seen at micro- to nanoscales, between 20 and 936 MHz and over a broad range of input power. Our model eliminates the critically problematic acoustic source singularity present in Lighthill's model, replacing it with a finite emission area and enabling determination of the streaming velocity close to the source. At high acoustic power P (and hence high jet Reynolds numbers ReJ associated with fast streaming), the laminar jet model predicts a one-half power dependence (U∼P1/2∼ ReJ) similar to the turbulent jet model. However, the laminar model may also be applied to jets produced at low powers-and hence low jet Reynolds numbers ReJ-where a linear relationship between the beam power and streaming velocity exists: U∼P∼ReJ2. The ability of the laminar jet model to predict the acoustic streaming behavior across a broad range of frequencies and power provides a useful tool in the analysis of microfluidics devices, explaining peculiar observations made by several researchers in the literature. In particular, by elucidating the effects of frequency on the scale of acoustically driven flows, we show that the choice of frequency is a vitally important consideration in the design of small-scale devices employing acoustic streaming for microfluidics.
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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- Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory, RMIT University, and the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
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Lapierre F, Coffinier Y, Boukherroub R, Thomy V. Electro-(de)wetting on superhydrophobic surfaces. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:13346-13351. [PMID: 24088024 DOI: 10.1021/la4026848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Usually, electrowetting on superhydrophobic surfaces (EWOSS) is generated by application of an alternating current signal and often leads to droplet impalement into the structuration. To avoid this phenomenon, superhydrophobic surfaces must show robustness to high pressure. Otherwise, an external energy has to be applied to dewet the droplet from the structuration. We present, in this article, an original approach to actuate liquid droplets via a modulated EWOSS signal (MEWOSS). This technique allows the dewetting of the droplet due to periodic vibrations induced by the electrowetting actuation. In that case, it is possible to investigate a larger range of superhydrophobic surfaces under EWOSS without droplet impalement. Three different superhydrophobic surfaces, showing different degrees of impalement under EWOSS, are investigated and compared using this MEWOSS technique.
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- Florian Lapierre
- Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), UMR CNRS 8520, University Lille1 , F-59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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