“…In addition, surface acoustic waves (SAW) have also attracted wide attention 31,32 , due to its attributes, including high energy confinement waves propagating along the surface of the substrate, efficient fluid-structure coupling, and being clean and non-polluting 31,33,34 . Consequently, SAW-based microfluidics have been widely used in microdroplet manipulation including splitting 10,11 , merging 14 , sorting 16,17 , capturing and releasing 20 and other applications such as fluid and particle manipulation 31,34,35 , chemical synthesis, and atomization drug delivery 33,[36][37][38][39][40][41] .…”