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Detection of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 spike protein by gold nanospikes in an opto-microfluidic chip by Funari, Riccardo, Chu, Kang-Yu, Shen, Amy Q.

“…The ongoing global pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to active research in its associated diagnostics and…”
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Detection and Characterization of Bacterial Biofilms and Biofilm-Based Sensors by Funari, Riccardo, Shen, Amy Q

“…Microbial biofilms have caused serious concerns in healthcare, medical, and food industries because of their intrinsic resistance against conventional…”
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Stagnation points control chaotic fluctuations in viscoelastic porous media flow by Haward, Simon J., Hopkins, Cameron C., Shen, Amy Q.

“…Viscoelastic flows through porous media become unstable and chaotic beyond critical flow conditions, impacting widespread industrial and biological processes…”
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Effects of Shearing and Extensional Flows on the Alignment of Colloidal Rods by Calabrese, Vincenzo, Haward, Simon J, Shen, Amy Q

“…Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) can be considered as model colloidal rods and have practical applications in the formation of soft materials with tailored…”
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Nanoplasmonic multiplex biosensing for COVID-19 vaccines by Funari, Riccardo, Fukuyama, Hidehiro, Shen, Amy Q.

“…The ongoing emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) variants requires swift actions in identifying specific…”
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Optimized Immobilization of Biomolecules on Nonspherical Gold Nanostructures for Efficient Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing by Garifullina, Ainash, Shen, Amy Q

“…Plasmonic biosensing techniques employ metal nanostructures, commonly gold (Au), often with biomolecules attached to their surfaces either directly or via…”
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Tumour-on-a-chip: microfluidic models of tumour morphology, growth and microenvironment by Tsai, Hsieh-Fu, Trubelja, Alen, Shen, Amy Q., Bao, Gang

“…Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death, albeit enormous efforts to cure the disease. To overcome the major challenges in cancer therapy, we need to…”
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Microfluidic Assisted Nanoprecipitation of PLGA Nanoparticles for Curcumin Delivery to Leukemia Jurkat Cells by Leung, Mandy H. M, Shen, Amy Q

“…The ability to control particle size and size distribution of nanoparticles for drug delivery is essential because it impacts on the biodistribution and…”
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Alignment of Colloidal Rods in Crowded Environments by Calabrese, Vincenzo, Varchanis, Stylianos, Haward, Simon J., Shen, Amy Q.

“…Understanding the hydrodynamic alignment of colloidal rods in polymer solutions is pivotal for manufacturing structurally ordered materials. How polymer…”
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Tristability in Viscoelastic Flow Past Side-by-Side Microcylinders by Hopkins, Cameron C, Haward, Simon J, Shen, Amy Q

“…Viscoelastic flows through microscale porous arrays exhibit complex path selection and switching phenomena. However, understanding this process is limited by a…”
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When Microrheology, Bulk Rheology, and Microfluidics Meet: Broadband Rheology of Hydroxyethyl Cellulose Water Solutions by Del Giudice, Francesco, Tassieri, Manlio, Oelschlaeger, Claude, Shen, Amy Q

“…In this work, we present new insights related to a debate on the morphological structure of hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) molecules when dissolved in water,…”
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Elastic instabilities in planar elongational flow of monodisperse polymer solutions by Haward, Simon J., McKinley, Gareth H., Shen, Amy Q.

“…We investigate purely elastic flow instabilities in the almost ideal planar stagnation point elongational flow field generated by a microfluidic…”
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Asymmetric flow of polymer solutions around microfluidic cylinders: Interaction between shear-thinning and viscoelasticity by Haward, Simon J., Hopkins, Cameron C., Shen, Amy Q.

“…•A novel flow instability around slender microfluidic cylinders is examined.•Influence of fluid elasticity and shear-thinning is tested using a range of…”
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Purely Elastic Fluid–Structure Interactions in Microfluidics: Implications for Mucociliary Flows by Hopkins, Cameron C., Haward, Simon J., Shen, Amy Q.

“…Fluid–structure interactions lie at the heart of the complex, and often highly coordinated, motions of actively driven microscale biological systems (e.g.,…”
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Understanding of the role of dilution on evaporative deposition patterns of blood droplets over hydrophilic and hydrophobic substrates by Iqbal, R., Shen, Amy Q., Sen, A.K.

“…[Display omitted] Blood is a complex colloidal suspension which carries myriads of information about human health. Understanding the evaporation dynamics and…”
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“From the Edge to the Center”: Viscoelastic Migration of Particles and Cells in a Strongly Shear-Thinning Liquid Flowing in a Microchannel by Del Giudice, Francesco, Sathish, Shivani, D’Avino, Gaetano, Shen, Amy Q

“…Controlling the fate of particles and cells in microfluidic devices is critical in many biomedical applications, such as particle and cell alignment and…”
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Air Plasma-Enhanced Covalent Functionalization of Poly(methyl methacrylate): High-Throughput Protein Immobilization for Miniaturized Bioassays by Sathish, Shivani, Ishizu, Noriko, Shen, Amy Q

“…Miniaturized systems, such as integrated microarray and microfluidic devices, are constantly being developed to satisfy the growing demand for sensitive and…”
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Real-time monitoring of DNA immobilization and detection of DNA polymerase activity by a microfluidic nanoplasmonic platform by Roether, Johanna, Chu, Kang-Yu, Willenbacher, Norbert, Shen, Amy Q., Bhalla, Nikhil

“…DNA polymerase catalyzes the replication of DNA, one of the key steps in cell division. The control and understanding of this reaction owns great potential for…”
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Rheological Scaling of Ionic Liquid-Based Polyelectrolytes in the Semidilute Unentangled Regime from Low to High Salt Concentrations by Matsumoto, Atsushi, Yoshizawa, Ryota, Urakawa, Osamu, Inoue, Tadashi, Shen, Amy Q

“…Polymerized ionic liquids (PILs) are a special class of ion-containing polymers with ionic liquid structures. The viscoelastic properties of PILs in IL…”
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Population genetics in microchannels by Koldaeva, Anzhelika, Tsai, Hsieh-Fu, Shen, Amy Q, Pigolotti, Simone

“…SignificanceMany microbial populations proliferate in small channels. In such environments, reproducing cells organize in parallel lanes. Reproducing cells…”
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