Acoustic Microfluidics: Design, Fabrication, and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 21
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Interests: phononic crystals; acoustic metamaterial; acoustofluidic manipulation; guided waves in piezoelectric materials
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Interests: phononic crystals; acoustic metamaterial; nondestructive testing; wave signal analysis by machine learning and AI
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid development of chemical, biochemical, and biomedicine technologies has created increasing demands for precision and efficient operations, such as rapid analysis of samples, microparticle and cell separation/detection, drug delivery, sample enrichment, tissue engineering, material synthesis, and catalytic reactions. These requirements necessitate more accurate manipulation and control of micro- and nanoscale particles and samples. Therefore, enhancing the ability to concentrate, mix, and transport particles or fluids and accomplishing the self-assembly of microstructures have great significance. Microfluidic technology, which specializes in microscale fluid manipulation, offers a promising solution to these challenges. Emerging microfluidic approaches demonstrate superior functionalities due to their miniaturization, precision, scalability, and low reagent consumption.
Acoustofluidic techniques utilizing acoustic waves, including bulk acoustic waves (BAWs) and surface acoustic waves (SAWs), enable effective manipulation of microparticles in fluids. This technique shows significant potential in interdisciplinary fields, enabling various technological applications. The biocompatibility, versatility and non-contact operations using acoustofluidic approaches have established them as universal tools for microfluidics. Acoustofluidic technology generates high-frequency mechanical waves through piezoelectric effects. When coupled with fluids, these waves produce acoustic streaming force (ASF) and acoustic radiation force (ARF). The synergistic effects of ARF and ASF enable non-contact manipulation and precise control, finding broad applications in microfluidics.
This Special Issue cordially invites submissions related to acoustofluidics and acoustic microfluidics. Contributors are welcome to present theoretical, numerical, experimental, and applied research on these technologies. This Special Issue aims to publish novel research results and strives to provide a comprehensive understanding of the physics, mechanisms, materials, analytical methods, fabrication, applications, and recent developments of acoustofluidics and acoustic microfluidics.
Prof. Dr. Jin-Chen Hsu
Dr. Jia-Hong Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- acoustofluidics
- microfluidics
- bulk acoustic wave
- surface acoustic wave
- acoustic streaming
- acoustic radiation force
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