Applying an external electric field over a polarizable electrode or object within
microchannels can induce an electric double layer (EDL) around channel walls and create …

Sheath-less focusing and sorting of cells or particles is an important preprocessing step in a
variety of biochemical applications. Most of the previous sorting methods depend on the use …

Continuous dielectrophoretic separation is recognized as a powerful technique for a large
number of applications including early stage cancer diagnosis, water quality analysis, and …

Induced-charge electroosmosis (ICEO) phenomena have been attracting considerable
attention as a means for pum** and mixing in microfluidic systems with the advantage of …

We introduce herein an efficient microfluidic approach for continuous transport and localized
collection of nanoparticles via hybrid electrokinetics, which delicately combines linear and …

We propose a simple, inexpensive microfluidic chip for large-scale trap** of single
particles and cells based on induced-charge electroosmosis in a rotating electric field (ROT …

Based on the continuum mechanics theory, we propose herein a universal design of
microfluidic ionic diode based on external concentration polarization of a gating ion …

We propose herein to make use of rotating electric fields for achieving flexible control on the
hydrodynamic behavior of two miscible co-flowing water solutions in straight microchannels …

Induced-charge electroosmosis has attracted lots of attention from the microfluidic
community over the past decade. Most previous researches on this subject focused on …

Fluid pum** in microchips using electrokinetic methods has been a hot area of research.
This paper mainly investigates effects of DC offset imposed on traveling wave (TW) signal on …