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Pressurized photobonding for 3D-printed inertial and droplet microfluidics

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A Method for Rapid, Quantitative Evaluation of Particle Sorting in Microfluidics Using Basic Cytometry Equipment

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Sheathless and high-throughput separation of multi-target particles combining inertia and deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) in a microchannel

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Simultaneous high-throughput particle-bacteria separation and solution exchange via in-plane and out-of-plane parallelization of microfluidic centrifuges

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Membrane-less microfiltration using microfluidics

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Sheathless inertial particle focusing methods within microfluidic devices: a review

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Coupling inertial effects and deterministic lateral displacement for high-purity microalgae separation in a microfluidic platform

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A spiral channel with integrated microelectrodes for label-free particle lateral position and size characterization

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Spiral tumor cell particle inertial focusing device based on secondary flow structure enhancement

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A novel two-stage microfluidic channel for high-quality sperm separation and washing

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Continuous Submicron Particle Separation Via Vortex-Enhanced Ionic Concentration Polarization: A Numerical Investigation

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A Cartesian-octree adaptive front-tracking solver for immersed biological capsules in large complex domains

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