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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Biomed Eng. 2014 May 29;16:371–396. doi: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-121813-120704

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Technologies enabled by inertial focusing behaviors. (a) Measurement of individual cell deformability characteristics for disease detection at a rate of thousands of cells per second (108). (b) Coupling of inertial ordering of cells and droplet encapsulation, which drastically improves the number of droplets created that hold a single cell and allows controlled encapsulation of particle pairs (114, 115). (c) Improved viability during electroporation by taking advantage of the spinning and vortexing of cells trapped in expansion/contraction devices. (Panel reproduced from 116 with permission from The Royal Society of Chemistry.)