David Collins

Diffraction-based acoustic manipulation in microchannels enables continuous particle and bacteria focusing.

Citsabehsan Devendran, Kyungyong Choi, Jongyoon Han, Ye Ai, Adrian Neild, David J Collins

Journal article  |  2020  |  Lab on a Chip

Acoustic fields have shown wide utility for micromanipulation, though their implementation in microfluidic devices often requires ..

A deep learning approach for designed diffraction-based acoustic patterning in microchannels.

Samuel J Raymond, David J Collins, Richard O'Rorke, Mahnoush Tayebi, Ye Ai, John Williams

Journal article  |  2020  |  Scientific Reports

Acoustic waves can be used to accurately position cells and particles and are appropriate for this activity owing to their biocomp..

Massively Multiplexed Submicron Particle Patterning in Acoustically Driven Oscillating Nanocavities

Mahnoush Tayebi, Richard O'Rorke, Him Cheng Wong, Hong Yee Low, Jongyoon Han, David J Collins, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2020  |  Small

Nanoacoustic fields are a promising method for particle actuation at the nanoscale, though THz frequencies are typically required ..

Slowness curve surface acoustic wave transducers for optimized acoustic streaming

Richard O'Rorke, Andreas Winkler, David Collins, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2020  |  RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences

Surface acoustic waves can induce force gradients on the length scales of micro- and nanoparticles, allowing precise manipulation ..

Acoustic fields and microfluidic patterning around embedded micro-structures subject to surface acoustic waves

David J Collins, Richard O'Rorke, Adrian Neild, Jongyoon Han, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2019  |  Soft Matter

Recent research has shown that interactions between acoustic waves and microfluidic channels can generate microscale interference ..

Detachable Acoustophoretic System for Fluorescence-Activated Sorting at the Single-Droplet Level.

Peixian Li, Zhichao Ma, Yinning Zhou, David J Collins, Zhenfeng Wang, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2019  |  Analytical Chemistry

Droplet-based single-cell sequencing has emerged as a very powerful tool to study the cellular heterogeneity in diseased tissues f..

Surface acoustic wave diffraction driven mechanisms in microfluidic systems.

Armaghan Fakhfouri, Citsabehsan Devendran, Thomas Albrecht, David J Collins, Andreas Winkler, Hagen Schmidt, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2018  |  Lab on a Chip

Acoustic forces arising from high-frequency surface acoustic waves (SAW) underpin an exciting range of promising techniques for no..

Outstanding Reviewers for Lab on a Chip in 2017

Chia-Hung Chen, David Collins, Citsabehsan Devendran, Dino Di Carlo, Amy Herr, Robert Meagher, Shoji Takeuchi, Adam White, Edmond Young, Jian Zhou

Journal article  |  2018  |  Lab on a Chip

A rapid and meshless analytical model of acoustofluidic pressure fields for waveguide design

Richard O'Rorke, David Collins, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2018  |  Biomicrofluidics

Self-Aligned Acoustofluidic Particle Focusing and Patterning in Microfluidic Channels from Channel-Based Acoustic Waveguides

David J Collins, Richard O'Rorke, Citsabehsan Devendran, Zhichao Ma, Jongyoon Han, Adrian Neild, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2018  |  Physical Review Letters

Acoustic fields have been widely used for manipulation of particles and cells within microfluidic systems. In this Letter, we expl..

Fluorescence activated cell sorting via a focused traveling surface acoustic beam

Zhichao Ma, Yinning Zhou, David J Collins, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2017  |  Lab on a Chip

Selective particle and cell capture in a continuous flow using micro-vortex acoustic streaming

David J Collins, Bee Luan Khoo, Zhichao Ma, Andreas Winkler, Robert Weser, Hagen Schmidt, Jongyoon Han, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2017  |  Lab on a Chip

Huygens-Fresnel Acoustic Interference and the Development of Robust Time-Averaged Patterns from Traveling Surface Acoustic Waves

Citsabehsan Devendran, David J Collins, Ye Ai, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2017  |  Physical Review Letters

Compact SAWaerosol generator

A Winkler, S Harazim, DJ Collins, R Bruenig, H Schmidt, SB Menzel

Journal article  |  2017  |  Biomedical Microdevices

Continuous micro-vortex-based nanoparticle manipulation via focused surface acoustic waves

David J Collins, Zhichao Ma, Jongyoon Han, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2017  |  Lab on a Chip

UTAP - Unique Topologies for Acoustic Propagation: Designing Algorithmic Waveguides for Sensing in Interactive Malleable Interfaces

Jan Rod, David Collins, Daniel Wessolek, Thavishi Illandara, Ye Ai, Hyowon Lee, Suranga Nanayakkara

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction - TEI '17

Single-actuator Bandpass Microparticle Filtration via Traveling Surface Acoustic Waves

Zhichao Ma, David J Collins, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2017  |  Colloid and Interface Science Communications

Mechanical Properties Based Particle Separation via Traveling Surface Acoustic Wave

Zhichao Ma, David J Collins, Jinhong Guo, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2016  |  Analytical Chemistry

Flow-rate-insensitive deterministic particle sorting using a combination of travelling and standing surface acoustic waves

Jia Wei Ng, David J Collins, Citsabehsan Devendran, Ye Ai, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2016  |  Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Acoustic tweezers via sub-time-of-flight regime surface acoustic waves

David J Collins, Citsabehsan Devendran, Zhichao Ma, Jia Wei Ng, Adrian Neild, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2016  |  Science Advances

Highly Localized Acoustic Streaming and Size-Selective Submicrometer Particle Concentration Using High Frequency Microscale Focused Acoustic Fields

David J Collins, Zhichao Ma, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2016  |  Analytical Chemistry

Detachable Acoustofluidic System for Particle Separation via a Traveling Surface Acoustic Wave

Zhichao Ma, David J Collins, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2016  |  Analytical Chemistry

Highly focused high-frequency travelling surface acoustic waves (SAW) for rapid single-particle sorting

David J Collins, Adrian Neild, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2016  |  Lab on a Chip

On-chip droplet production regimes using surface acoustic waves

Jason C Brenker, David J Collins, Van Phan Hoang, Tuncay Alan, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2016  |  Lab on a Chip

Batch process particle separation using surface acoustic waves (SAW): integration of travelling and standing SAW

Citsabehsan Devendran, Nipuna R Gunasekara, David J Collins, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2016  |  RSC Advances

Virtual membrane for filtration of particles using surface acoustic waves (SAW)

Armaghan Fakhfouri, Citsabehsan Devendran, David J Collins, Ye Ai, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2016  |  Lab on a Chip

Two-dimensional single-cell patterning with one cell per well driven by surface acoustic waves

David J Collins, Belinda Morahan, Jose Garcia-Bustos, Christian Doerig, Magdalena Plebanski, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2015  |  Nature Communications

Using nano-mechanics and surface acoustic wave (SAW) for disease monitoring and diagnostics at a cellular level in red blood cells

Ninnuja Sivanantha, Charles Ma, David J Collins, Muhsincan Sesen, Jason Brenker, Ross L Coppel, Adrian Neild, Tuncay Alan

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  Physics Procedia

The Poisson distribution and beyond: methods for microfluidic droplet production and single cell encapsulation

David J Collins, Adrian Neild, Andrew deMello, Ai-Qun Liu, Ye Ai

Journal article  |  2015  |  Lab on a Chip

Characterization of adhesive properties of red blood cells using surface acoustic wave induced flows for rapid diagnostics

Ninnuja Sivanantha, Charles Ma, David J Collins, Muhsincan Sesen, Jason Brenker, Ross L Coppel, Adrian Neild, Tuncay Alan

Journal article  |  2014  |  Applied Physics Letters

The particle valve: On-demand particle trapping, filtering, and release from a microfabricated polydimethylsiloxane membrane using surface acoustic waves

David J Collins, Tuncay Alan, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2014  |  Applied Physics Letters

On-demand regime transitioning for production of size controlled droplets using surface acoustic waves

JC Brenker, DJ Collins, A Neild, T Alan

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  18th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2014

Particle separation using virtual deterministic lateral displacement (vDLD)

David J Collins, Tuncay Alan, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2014  |  Lab Chip

On-chip biochemistry: Droplet generation and control

A Neild, DJ Collins, M Sesen, T Alan

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the 19th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2014

Surface acoustic waves for on-demand production of picoliter droplets and particle encapsulation

David J Collins, Tuncay Alan, Kristian Helmerson, Adrian Neild

Journal article  |  2013  |  Lab on a Chip

Atomization off thin water films generated by high-frequency substrate wave vibrations

David J Collins, Ofer Manor, Andreas Winkler, Hagen Schmidt, James R Friend, Leslie Y Yeo

Journal article  |  2012  |  Physical Review E