Microfluidic mixing: a review

CY Lee, CL Chang, YN Wang, LM Fu - International journal of molecular …, 2011 - mdpi.com
The aim of microfluidic mixing is to achieve a thorough and rapid mixing of multiple samples
in microscale devices. In such devices, sample mixing is essentially achieved by enhancing …

A review on the application, simulation, and experiment of the electrokinetic mixers

S Rashidi, H Bafekr, MS Valipour… - Chemical Engineering and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Electrokinetic driven flow can be used as an active technique to improve mixing in various
devices. This technique is employed to mix fluid samples rapidly and efficiently in different …

Numerical analysis of electroosmotic mixing in a heterogeneous charged micromixer with obstacles

B Mondal, SK Mehta, S Pati, PK Patowari - Chemical Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The mixing and flow characteristics are numerically investigated for an electroosmotic flow
through a heterogeneous charged micromixer with obstacles both at the top and bottom …

On designing a wavy sinusoidal micromixer for efficient mixing of viscoelastic fluids harnessing elastic instability and elastic turbulence phenomena

S Gupta, C Sasmal - Chemical Engineering Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Effective mixing in microscale systems encounters difficulties due to the inherently low
Reynolds numbers. This investigation delves into harnessing elastic instability and elastic …

Numerical study of a novel induced-charge electrokinetic micro-mixer

Y Daghighi, D Li - Analytica chimica acta, 2013 - Elsevier
A novel micro-mixer based on the induced-charge electrokinetic motion of an electrically
conducting particle is proposed and numerically demonstrated in this paper. For most …

Numerical investigation of electroosmotic mixing in a contraction–expansion microchannel

Y Gong, X Cheng - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
Electroosmotic micromixing is generally a highly desirable technique in microanalysis
systems due to its ability to mix fluids at the microliter level. Herein, a contraction-expansion …

Experimental determination and computational prediction of the mixing efficiency of a simple, continuous, serpentine-channel microdevice

S Arockiam, YH Cheng, PM Armenante… - … Research and Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Micromixing devices often utilize complex architectures to mix miscible liquid streams and
can be complex and expensive to fabricate. Here, we developed, built, experimentally …

Dual surface acoustic wave-based active mixing in a microfluidic channel

MC Jo, R Guldiken - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2013 - Elsevier
Many applications need fast and efficient mixing of the sample and reagent with high
throughput in a microfluidic channel. Due to low Reynolds number, mixing based on …

Computational Fluid–Structure Interaction in Microfluidics

HM Musharaf, U Roshan, A Mudugamuwa… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Micro elastofluidics is a transformative branch of microfluidics, leveraging the fluid–structure
interaction (FSI) at the microscale to enhance the functionality and efficiency of various …

Rapid microfluidic mixing via rotating magnetic microbeads

D Owen, M Ballard, A Alexeev, PJ Hesketh - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2016 - Elsevier
Presented here is a novel method for mixing in a microfluidic channel via an array of rotating
magnetic microbeads. The microbeads rotate around circular permalloy (NiFe) features …