Joint subarray acoustic tweezers enable controllable cell translation, rotation, and deformation.

ABSTRACT: Contactless microscale tweezers are highly effective tools for manipulating, patterning, and assembling bioparticles. However, current tweezers are limited in their ability to comprehensively manipulate bioparticles, providing only partial control over the six fundamental motions (three translational and three rotational motions). This study presents a joint subarray acoustic tweezers platform that leverages acoustic radiation force and viscous torque to control the six fundamental motions of single bioparticles. This breakthrough is significant as our manipulation mechanism allows for controlling the three translational and three rotational motions of single cells, as well as enabling complex manipulation that combines controlled translational and rotational motions. Moreover, our tweezer

SUBMITTER: Shen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11491459 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature