Acoustic tweezers for the life sciences

By Adem Ozcelik, Joseph Rufo, Feng Guo, Yuyang Gu, Peng Li, James P. Lata, Tony Jun Huang. Nature Methods, 2018

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Acoustic tweezers are a versatile set of tools that use sound waves to manipulate bioparticles ranging from nanometer-sized extracellular vesicles to millimeter-sized multicellular organisms. Over the past several decades, the capabilities of acoustic tweezers have expanded from simplistic particle trapping to precise rotation and translation of cells and organisms in three dimensions. Recent advances have led to reconfigured acoustic tweezers that are capable of separating, enriching, and patterning bioparticles in complex solutions. Here, we review the history and fundamentals of acoustic-tweezer technology and summarize recent breakthroughs. This review discusses and contrasts different acoustic-tweezer technologies and their applications in biology.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering

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