The area of micro total analysis systems, also called “lab on a chip”, or miniaturized analysis
systems, is growing rapidly. Since the excellent research documented in many publications …

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The ζ-potential of a solid–liquid interface is an important surface characterization quantity for
applications ranging from the development of biomedical polymers to the design of …

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A lab-on-a-chip device is a microscale laboratory on a credit-card sized glass or plastic chip
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Ion distributions and velocity profiles for electroosmotic flow in nanochannels of different
widths are studied in this paper using molecular dynamics and continuum theory. For the …

When the Debye length is on the order of or larger than the height of a nanofluidic channel
containing surface charge, a unipolar solution of counterions is generated to maintain …

Analytical results for the velocity distribution, mass flow rate, pressure gradient, wall shear
stress, and vorticity in mixed electroosmotic/pressure driven flows are presented for two …