Recent advances in direct current electrokinetic manipulation of particles for microfluidic applications

X Xuan - Electrophoresis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic devices have been extensively used to achieve precise transport and placement
of a variety of particles for numerous applications. A range of force fields have thus far been …

Review of nonlinear electrokinetic flows in insulator‐based dielectrophoresis: from induced charge to Joule heating effects

X Xuan - Electrophoresis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Insulator‐based dielectrophoresis (iDEP) has been increasingly used for particle
manipulation in various microfluidic applications. It exploits insulating structures to constrict …

Electroosmotic flow of non‐Newtonian fluids in a constriction microchannel

CH Ko, D Li, A Malekanfard, YN Wang, LM Fu… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Insulator‐based dielectrophoresis has to date been almost entirely restricted to Newtonian
fluids despite the fact that many of the chemical and biological fluids exhibit non‐Newtonian …

Continuous‐flow nanoparticle trap** driven by hybrid electrokinetics in microfluidics

W Liu, Y Tao, R Xue, C Song, Q Wu, Y Ren - Electrophoresis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce herein an efficient microfluidic approach for continuous transport and localized
collection of nanoparticles via hybrid electrokinetics, which delicately combines linear and …

A universal design of field-effect-tunable microfluidic ion diode based on a gating cation-exchange nanoporous membrane

W Liu, Y Ren, Y Tao, B Yao, N Liu, Q Wu - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Recent advancement in induced-charge electrokinetic phenomena and their micro-and nano-fluidic applications

H Feng, H Chang, X Zhong, TN Wong - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Induced-charge electrokinetics (ICEK) remains a hot topic due to its promising applications
in micro-and nano-fluidics. Over the past decade, researchers have made a great …

On ac-field-induced nonlinear electroosmosis next to the sharp corner-field-singularity of leaky dielectric blocks and its application in on-chip micro-mixing

Y Ren, W Liu, Y Tao, M Hui, Q Wu - Micromachines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Induced-charge electroosmosis has attracted lots of attention from the microfluidic
community over the past decade. Most previous researches on this subject focused on …

AC dielectrophoretic deformable particle‐particle interactions and their relative motions

T Zhou, X Ji, L Shi, X Zhang, Y Song, SW Joo - Electrophoresis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops a numerical simulation model to research the deformable particle‐
particle interactions caused by dielectrophoresis (DEP) under AC electric fields. The DEP …

Pum** of electrolyte with mobile liquid metal droplets driven by continuous electrowetting: A full‐scaled simulation study considering surface‐coupled …

W Liu, Y Tao, Z Ge, J Zhou, R Xu, Y Ren - Electrophoresis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the excellent merits of both solid conductors and rheological fluids, liquid metal (LM)
provides new opportunities to serve as flexible building blocks of miniaturized electronic and …