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Advances in piezoelectric thin films for acoustic biosensors, acoustofluidics and lab-on-chip applications

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In this article, the authors acknowledge support from the Innovative electronic manufacturing research centre (IeMRC) through the EPSRC funded flagship project SMART MICROSYSTEMS.
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This article is published in Progress in Materials Science.The article was published on 2017-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 439 citations till now.

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Piezoelectric Biomaterials for Sensors and Actuators

TL;DR: The principles, applications, future opportunities, and challenges of piezoelectric biomaterials for medical uses are reviewed thoroughly and can spark a new age in the field of medicine.
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Active and passive micromixers: A comprehensive review

TL;DR: In this paper, the basic microfluidic equations and the relevant numerical and experimental approaches for different types and designs of passive and active micromixers are presented. And different configurations of lamination, obstacle, convergence-divergence and curved-channel are discussed for passive micromIXers.
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Ultrasound propulsion of micro-/nanomotors

TL;DR: Progress in using ultrasound to control and propel micro-/nanomachines during the last decade is summarized, the important aspects toward biomedical applications are discussed, and great biocompatibility is discussed.
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Quartz Crystal Microbalance Electronic Interfacing Systems: A Review.

TL;DR: This paper presents a comprehensive review of the various existing QCM electronic interfacing systems, including impedance-based analysis, oscillators (conventional and lock-in based techniques), exponential decay methods and the emerging phase-mass based characterization.
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