Continuous inertial microparticle and blood cell separation in straight channels with local microstructures.

@article{Wu2016ContinuousIM,
  title={Continuous inertial microparticle and blood cell separation in straight channels with local microstructures.},
  author={Zhenlong Wu and Yu Chen and Moran Wang and Aram J. Chung},
  journal={Lab on a chip},
  year={2016},
  volume={16 3},
  pages={
          532-42
        }
}
Fluid inertia which has conventionally been neglected in microfluidics has been gaining much attention for particle and cell manipulation because inertia-based methods inherently provide simple, passive, precise and high-throughput characteristics. Particularly, the inertial approach has been applied to blood separation for various biomedical research studies mainly using spiral microchannels. For higher throughput, parallelization is essential; however, it is difficult to realize using spiral… 
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