Microfluidics: HYbriD Resonant Acoustics (HYDRA) (Adv. Mater. 10/2016)

On page 1970, L. Y. Yeo and co-workers unravel and elucidate the existence of what they term a surface reflected bulk wave (SRBW), and show, quite counterintuitively, that it is possible to obtain an order-of-magnitude improvement in microfluidic manipulation efficiency, and, in particular, nebulization, through a unique combination of surface and bulk waves without increasing the complexity or cost.