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 …

Electric field driven pum** in microfluidic device

MR Hossan, D Dutta, N Islam, P Dutta - Electrophoresis, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pum** of fluids with precise control is one of the key components in a microfluidic device.
The electric field has been used as one of the most popular and efficient nonmechanical …

Concentration polarization of interface and non-linear electrokinetic phenomena

NA Mishchuk - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2010 - Elsevier
The review addresses the peculiarities of concentration polarization caused by an electric
current passing through conducting and around nonconducting charged materials. The …

AC electrothermal effect in microfluidics: A review

A Salari, M Navi, T Lijnse, C Dalton - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
The electrothermal effect has been investigated extensively in microfluidics since the 1990s
and has been suggested as a promising technique for fluid manipulations in lab-on-a-chip …

Slowing down DNA translocation through solid-state nanopores by edge-field leakage

C Wang, S Sensale, Z Pan, S Senapati… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Solid-state nanopores allow high-throughput single-molecule detection but identifying and
even registering all translocating small molecules remain key challenges due to their high …

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 …

Induced-charge electroosmotic trap** of particles

Y Ren, W Liu, Y Jia, Y Tao, J Shao, Y Ding, H Jiang - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Position-controllable trap** of particles on the surface of a bipolar metal strip by induced-
charge electroosmotic (ICEO) flow is presented herein. We demonstrate a nonlinear ICEO …

Remotely controlled nanofluidic implantable platform for tunable drug delivery

N Di Trani, A Silvestri, G Bruno, T Geninatti, CYX Chua… - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Chronic diseases such as hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis are persistent ailments that
require personalized lifelong therapeutic management. However, the difficulty of adherence …

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 …

Stationary electro-osmotic flow driven by ac fields around insulators

V Calero, R Fernández-Mateo, H Morgan… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Electric fields are commonly used for manipulating particles and liquids in microfluidic
systems. In this work, we report stationary electro-osmotic flow vortices around dielectric …