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Hydrodynamic Tweezers: Trapping and Transportation in Microscale Using Vortex Induced by Oscillation of a Single Piezoelectric Actuator
The demand for a harmless noncontact trapping and transportation method in manipulation and measurement of biological micro objects waits to be met. In this paper, a novel micromanipulation method named “Hydrodynamic Tweezers” using the vortex induced by oscillating a single piezoelectric actuator i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29932124 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18072002 |
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author | Liu, Xiaoming Shi, Qing Lin, Yuqing Kojima, Masaru Mae, Yasushi Huang, Qiang Fukuda, Toshio Arai, Tatsuo |
author_facet | Liu, Xiaoming Shi, Qing Lin, Yuqing Kojima, Masaru Mae, Yasushi Huang, Qiang Fukuda, Toshio Arai, Tatsuo |
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description | The demand for a harmless noncontact trapping and transportation method in manipulation and measurement of biological micro objects waits to be met. In this paper, a novel micromanipulation method named “Hydrodynamic Tweezers” using the vortex induced by oscillating a single piezoelectric actuator is introduced. The piezoelectric actuator is set between a micropipette and a copper beam. Oscillating the actuator at a certain frequency causes the resonance of the copper beam and extend 1D straight oscillation of the piezoelectric actuator to 2D circular oscillation of the micropipette, which induces a micro vortex after putting the micropipette into fluid. The induced vortex featuring low pressure in its core area can trap the object nearby. A robotic micromanipulator is utilized to transport the trapped objects together with the micropipette. Experiments of trapping and transportation microbeads are carried out to characterize the key parameters. The results show that the trapping force can be controlled by adjusting peak-peak voltage of the sinusoidal voltage input into the piezoelectric actuator. |
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spelling | pubmed-60688372018-08-07 Hydrodynamic Tweezers: Trapping and Transportation in Microscale Using Vortex Induced by Oscillation of a Single Piezoelectric Actuator Liu, Xiaoming Shi, Qing Lin, Yuqing Kojima, Masaru Mae, Yasushi Huang, Qiang Fukuda, Toshio Arai, Tatsuo Sensors (Basel) Article The demand for a harmless noncontact trapping and transportation method in manipulation and measurement of biological micro objects waits to be met. In this paper, a novel micromanipulation method named “Hydrodynamic Tweezers” using the vortex induced by oscillating a single piezoelectric actuator is introduced. The piezoelectric actuator is set between a micropipette and a copper beam. Oscillating the actuator at a certain frequency causes the resonance of the copper beam and extend 1D straight oscillation of the piezoelectric actuator to 2D circular oscillation of the micropipette, which induces a micro vortex after putting the micropipette into fluid. The induced vortex featuring low pressure in its core area can trap the object nearby. A robotic micromanipulator is utilized to transport the trapped objects together with the micropipette. Experiments of trapping and transportation microbeads are carried out to characterize the key parameters. The results show that the trapping force can be controlled by adjusting peak-peak voltage of the sinusoidal voltage input into the piezoelectric actuator. MDPI 2018-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6068837/ /pubmed/29932124 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18072002 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Liu, Xiaoming Shi, Qing Lin, Yuqing Kojima, Masaru Mae, Yasushi Huang, Qiang Fukuda, Toshio Arai, Tatsuo Hydrodynamic Tweezers: Trapping and Transportation in Microscale Using Vortex Induced by Oscillation of a Single Piezoelectric Actuator |
title | Hydrodynamic Tweezers: Trapping and Transportation in Microscale Using Vortex Induced by Oscillation of a Single Piezoelectric Actuator |
title_full | Hydrodynamic Tweezers: Trapping and Transportation in Microscale Using Vortex Induced by Oscillation of a Single Piezoelectric Actuator |
title_fullStr | Hydrodynamic Tweezers: Trapping and Transportation in Microscale Using Vortex Induced by Oscillation of a Single Piezoelectric Actuator |
title_full_unstemmed | Hydrodynamic Tweezers: Trapping and Transportation in Microscale Using Vortex Induced by Oscillation of a Single Piezoelectric Actuator |
title_short | Hydrodynamic Tweezers: Trapping and Transportation in Microscale Using Vortex Induced by Oscillation of a Single Piezoelectric Actuator |
title_sort | hydrodynamic tweezers: trapping and transportation in microscale using vortex induced by oscillation of a single piezoelectric actuator |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6068837/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29932124 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18072002 |
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