TABLE III.

Recent advances of elasto-inertial contraction–expansion microfluidics.

Targets	Applications	Sample flow rate	Performance	Reference
6 μm beads	Three-dimensional single-stream particle focusing	300 μl/h	Focusing efficiency:>99%	101
3.2/4.8/13 μm particles	Three-dimensional single-stream particle focusing	60 μl/min	4.8 μm particles have the best focusing performance	27
Plasma	Plasma extraction in the diluted blood sample	50 μl/min	Plasma purity: 99.93% (the first filtration) 99.99% (the second filtration)	102
Jurkat cells	Separation of Jurkat cells and yeast cells	20 μl/min	Recovery rate: 99.6% Purity: 24% Enrichment ratio: 11.9%	104
H1299 cells	Separation of H1299 cells from the blood cells	500 μl/h	Separation efficiency: 98%	105
NCI-H1299 cells / Blood cells	Separation of tumor cells from the blood cells	10 μl/min	Separation efficiency: 100% (NCI-H1299 cells) >90% (blood cells)	106
2/10 μm particles	Size-based particle separation	∼1 μl/min	Achieving complete particle separation	107