Electrical Manipulation of Bioparticles in Microfluidics
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B:Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 4008
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microfluidics; bioseparations; dielectrophoresis; modeling and simulations; educational research
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microfluidics has shown its value in the application of bioparticle sorting for biology and medicine, such as the isolation of pathogens, proteins, exosomes, stem cells, and circulating tumor cells; blood-cell sorting; and cancer stem-cell separation. Electric and electrochemical approaches, including electrophoresis, dielectrophoresis (DEP), and electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD), are widely used for these applications. This Special Issue aims to focus on applications in the field of disease diagnostics that utilize electrokinetics to manipulate and characterize infected bioparticles ranging from cells to proteins. Submissions integrating modeling and experimentation are preferred.
Contributions may be (i) research articles with original results or (ii) critical reviews, which may also contain original results focusing on novel methodological developments and applications pertaining to the electrical manipulation of bioparticles at micro and sub-micro scales. The subjects of the upcoming issue could include, but are not limited to:
- Electrokinetics in microchannels and nanochannels;
- Dielectric spectroscopy;
- Traveling wave dielectrophoresis;
- Dielectrophoretic enrichment, separation, and manipulation;
- Organ-on-a-chip with electrical stimulations;
- Biosensors integrated with microchips utilizing an electric field to manipulate bioparticles;
- AI/ML applications with microchips utilizing an electric field to manipulate bioparticles.
Dr. Soumya Srivastava
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microfluidics
- electrical gradient
- bioparticles
- dielectric spectroscopy