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View article: A Modified Sample Preparation Protocol for High-Efficiency Lab-on-a-Disk-Based Separation and Single-Image Quantification of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Parasite Eggs in Stool
A Modified Sample Preparation Protocol for High-Efficiency Lab-on-a-Disk-Based Separation and Single-Image Quantification of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Parasite Eggs in Stool Open
Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) present a significant global health challenge, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. The current diagnostic standard involves the microscopic examination of a stool smear but it lacks sensitivi…
View article: A Modified Sample Preparation Protocol for High Efficiency Lab‐on‐a‐Disk Based Separation and Single Image Quantification of Soil Transmitted Helminth Parasite Eggs in Stool
A Modified Sample Preparation Protocol for High Efficiency Lab‐on‐a‐Disk Based Separation and Single Image Quantification of Soil Transmitted Helminth Parasite Eggs in Stool Open
Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) present a significant global health challenge, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. Current diagnostic standard involves the microscopic examination of a stool smear but it lacks sensitivity t…
View article: Motility-dependent selective transport of active matter in trap arrays: separation methods based on trapping-detrapping and deterministic lateral displacement
Motility-dependent selective transport of active matter in trap arrays: separation methods based on trapping-detrapping and deterministic lateral displacement Open
Motility-dependent selective transport of active matter in trap arrays. Two methods of separation of motile particles or living cells are proposed: (1) based on selective trapping-detrapping; (2) employing deterministic lateral displacemen…
View article: Prevalence, Infection Intensity, and Risk Factors for Soil-transmitted Helminth Infections among School Children in Northwestern Tanzania
Prevalence, Infection Intensity, and Risk Factors for Soil-transmitted Helminth Infections among School Children in Northwestern Tanzania Open
Soil-transmitted helminthiases (STH) are among the neglected tropical diseases and infect more than 24% of the world population. The World Health Organization recommends regular monitoring of STH’s prevalence and intensity following mass d…
View article: Evaluation of Lab-on-a-Disc Technique Performance for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Diagnosis in Animals in Tanzania
Evaluation of Lab-on-a-Disc Technique Performance for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Diagnosis in Animals in Tanzania Open
Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections are caused by roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, and thread worms. Accurate diagnosis is essential for effective treatment, prevention, and control of these infections. This study evaluates a new d…
View article: Janus Particles in Acoustofluidic Setup: The Interplay between Self-Propulsion and Acoustic Trapping
Janus Particles in Acoustofluidic Setup: The Interplay between Self-Propulsion and Acoustic Trapping Open
Acoustic focusing of particle flow in microfluidics has been shown to be an efficient tool for particle separation for various chemical and biomedical applications. The mechanism behind the method is the selective effect of the acoustic ra…
View article: Janus Particles in Acoustofluidic setup: The Interplay between Self‐Propulsion and Acoustic Trapping
Janus Particles in Acoustofluidic setup: The Interplay between Self‐Propulsion and Acoustic Trapping Open
Acoustic focusing of particle flow in microfluidics has been shown to be an efficient tool for particle separation for various chemical and biomedical applications. The mechanism behind the method is the selective effect of the acoustic ra…
View article: High Specificity but Low Sensitivity of Lab-on-a-Disk Technique in Detecting Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs among Pre- and School-Aged Children in North-Western Tanzania
High Specificity but Low Sensitivity of Lab-on-a-Disk Technique in Detecting Soil-Transmitted Helminth Eggs among Pre- and School-Aged Children in North-Western Tanzania Open
An estimated 1.5 billion people are infected with soil-transmitted helminths (hookworms, Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris trichiura). These infections are targeted for elimination by the World Health Organization (WHO) by 2030, with the …
View article: Enhancing the Yield of a Lab-on-a-Disk-Based Single-Image Parasite Quantification Device
Enhancing the Yield of a Lab-on-a-Disk-Based Single-Image Parasite Quantification Device Open
The recently proposed single-image parasite quantification (SIMPAQ) platform based on a Lab-on-a-Disc (LOD) device was previously successfully tested in field conditions, demonstrating its efficiency in soil-transmitted helminth (STH) egg …
View article: Enhancing the Yield of Lab-on-a-Disk Based Single Image Parasite Quantification Device
Enhancing the Yield of Lab-on-a-Disk Based Single Image Parasite Quantification Device Open
A recently proposed single image parasite quantification (SIMPAQ) platform based on a Lab-On-a-Disc (LOD) device has been earlier successfully tested in field conditions demonstrating the efficiency in soil-transmitted helminths (STH) egg …
View article: Narrow Pore Crossing of Active Particles under Stochastic Resetting
Narrow Pore Crossing of Active Particles under Stochastic Resetting Open
We propose a two-dimensional model of biochemical activation process, whereby self-propelling particles of finite correlation times are injected at the center of a circular cavity with constant rate equal to the inverse of their lifetime; …
View article: Selecting active matter according to motility in an acoustofluidic setup: self-propelled particles and sperm cells
Selecting active matter according to motility in an acoustofluidic setup: self-propelled particles and sperm cells Open
Selecting sperm cells or self-propelled Janus particles according to their motility in an acoustofluidic setup: the acoustic trap focuses cells/particles near the channel centerline, and motile species escape the trap and can be collected …
View article: Rail induced lateral migration of particles across intact co-flowing liquids
Rail induced lateral migration of particles across intact co-flowing liquids Open
This paper presents a rail guided method to apply a Layer-by-Layer (LbL) coating on particles in a microfluidic device. The passive microfluidic approach allows handling suspensions of particles to be coated in the system. The trajectory o…
View article: Rail induced lateral migration of particles across intact co-flowing liquids
Rail induced lateral migration of particles across intact co-flowing liquids Open
This paper presents a rail guided method to apply Layer-by-Layer (LbL) coating on particles in a microfluidic device. The passive, microfluidic approach allows handling suspensions of particles to be coated in the system. The trajectory of…
View article: Electrokinetic Janus micromotors moving on topographically flat chemical patterns
Electrokinetic Janus micromotors moving on topographically flat chemical patterns Open
Ionic and molecular selectivity are considered unique for the nanoscale and not realizable in microfluidics. This is due to the scale-matching problem — a difficulty to match the dimensions of ions and electrostatic potential screening len…
View article: Migration Behavior of Low-Density Particles in Lab-on-a-Disc Devices: Effect of Walls
Migration Behavior of Low-Density Particles in Lab-on-a-Disc Devices: Effect of Walls Open
The effect of the lateral walls of a Lab-On-a-Disc device on the dynamics of a model system of particles with a density lower than that of the solvent (modelling parasites eggs) is analyzed theoretically and experimentally. In the absence …
View article: Anisotropic Diffusion in Driven Convection Arrays
Anisotropic Diffusion in Driven Convection Arrays Open
We numerically investigate the transport of a Brownian colloidal particle in a square array of planar counter-rotating convection rolls at high Péclet numbers. We show that an external force produces huge excess peaks of the particle’s dif…
View article: Janus Particles: Inverse Solidification Induced by Active Janus Particles (Adv. Funct. Mater. 39/2020)
Janus Particles: Inverse Solidification Induced by Active Janus Particles (Adv. Funct. Mater. 39/2020) Open
In article number 2003851, Denys Makarov, Larysa Baraban, and co-workers discuss inverse solidification driven by active colloids, which provides novel insight into the collective effects in mixed colloidal systems comprising of active and…
View article: Ultradense Tailored Vortex Pinning Arrays in Superconducting YBa<sub>2</sub>Cu<sub>3</sub>O<sub>7−δ</sub>Thin Films Created by Focused He Ion Beam Irradiation for Fluxonics Applications
Ultradense Tailored Vortex Pinning Arrays in Superconducting YBa<sub>2</sub>Cu<sub>3</sub>O<sub>7−δ</sub>Thin Films Created by Focused He Ion Beam Irradiation for Fluxonics Applications Open
Magnetic fields penetrate a type-II superconductor as magnetic flux quanta, called vortices. In a clean superconductor they arrange in a hexagonal lattice, while by adding periodic artificial pinning centers many other arrangements can be …
View article: Ultradense tailored vortex pinning arrays in superconducting YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ thin films created by focused He ion-beam irradiation
Ultradense tailored vortex pinning arrays in superconducting YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-δ}$ thin films created by focused He ion-beam irradiation Open
Magnetic fields penetrate a type-II superconductor as magnetic flux quanta, called vortices. In a clean superconductor they arrange in a hexagonal lattice, while by adding periodic artificial pinning centers many other arrangements can be …
View article: Janus Micromotors: High‐Motility Visible Light‐Driven Ag/AgCl Janus Micromotors (Small 48/2018)
Janus Micromotors: High‐Motility Visible Light‐Driven Ag/AgCl Janus Micromotors (Small 48/2018) Open
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View article: Janus Micromotors: Visible Light Actuated Efficient Exclusion Between Plasmonic Ag/AgCl Micromotors and Passive Beads (Small 44/2018)
Janus Micromotors: Visible Light Actuated Efficient Exclusion Between Plasmonic Ag/AgCl Micromotors and Passive Beads (Small 44/2018) Open
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View article: High‐Motility Visible Light‐Driven Ag/AgCl Janus Micromotors
High‐Motility Visible Light‐Driven Ag/AgCl Janus Micromotors Open
Visible light‐driven nano/micromotors are promising candidates for biomedical and environmental applications. This study demonstrates blue light‐driven Ag/AgCl‐based spherical Janus micromotors, which couple plasmonic light absorption with…
View article: Visible Light Actuated Efficient Exclusion Between Plasmonic Ag/AgCl Micromotors and Passive Beads
Visible Light Actuated Efficient Exclusion Between Plasmonic Ag/AgCl Micromotors and Passive Beads Open
Insight is provided into the collective behavior of visible‐light photochemically driven plasmonic Ag/AgCl Janus particles surrounded by passive polystyrene (PS) beads. The active diffusion of single Janus particles and their clusters (sma…
View article: Colloidal transport through trap arrays controlled by active microswimmers
Colloidal transport through trap arrays controlled by active microswimmers Open
We investigate the dynamics of a binary mixture consisting of active and passive colloidal particles diffusing in a 2D array of truncated harmonic wells, or traps. We explore the possibility of using a small fraction of active particles to…
View article: Recent Advances in Superconductivity and Vortex Matter: Selected Topics
Recent Advances in Superconductivity and Vortex Matter: Selected Topics Open
The more-than-a-century history of superconductivity is marked by a great deal of progress in the understanding of this fascinating phenomenon as well as discovery and design of new superconducting materials and systems with enhanced criti…
View article: Artificial living crystals in confined environment
Artificial living crystals in confined environment Open
Similar to the spontaneous formation of colonies of bacteria, flocks of birds, or schools of fish, "living crystals" can be formed by artificial self-propelled particles such as Janus colloids. Unlike usual solids, these "crystals" are far…
View article: Pattern formation in vortex matter with pinning and frustrated intervortex interactions
Pattern formation in vortex matter with pinning and frustrated intervortex interactions Open
We investigate the effects related to vortex core deformations when vortices approach each other. As a result of these vortex core deformations, the vortex-vortex interaction effectively acquires an attractive component leading to a variet…
View article: Microswimmers: Confined Catalytic Janus Swimmers in a Crowded Channel: Geometry‐Driven Rectification Transients and Directional Locking (Small 42/2016)
Microswimmers: Confined Catalytic Janus Swimmers in a Crowded Channel: Geometry‐Driven Rectification Transients and Directional Locking (Small 42/2016) Open
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