Electromagnetic forces and torques enable many key technologies, including optical
tweezers or dielectrophoresis. Interestingly, both techniques rely on the same physical …

Multiphysics microfluidics, which combines multiple functional physical processes in a
microfluidics platform, is an emerging research area that has attracted increasing interest for …

In classical electrokinetics, the electrophoretic velocity of a dielectric particle is a linear
function of the applied electric field. Theoretical studies have predicted the onset of …

This study focuses on the dependence of nonlinear electrophoretic migration of particles on
the particle size and particle electrical charge. This is the first report of the experimental …

Advances over the past decade in nonlinear electrophoresis of charged, dielectric colloidal
particles in aqueous electrolytes are reviewed. Here, the word nonlinear refers to the fact …

Presented here is the first continuous separation of microparticles and cells of similar
characteristics employing linear and nonlinear electrokinetic phenomena in an insulator …

Contemporary findings in the field of insulator-based electrokinetics have demonstrated that
in systems under the influence of direct current (DC) fields, dielectrophoresis (DEP) is not …

Electrokinetically driven insulator‐based microfluidic devices represent an attractive option
to manipulate particle suspensions. These devices can filtrate, concentrate, separate, or …

There is an immediate need for the development of rapid and reliable methods for
microparticle and cell assessments, and electrokinetic (EK) phenomena can be exploited to …

Nonlinear electrophoresis offers advantageous prospects in microfluidic manipulation of
particles over linear electrophoresis. Existing theories established for this phenomenon are …