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 …

Thermal gradient and elastic dependence of induced charge electro-osmosis in viscoelastic fluids

DL Chen, XP Luo, ZG Su, K Luo, HL Yi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Induced charge electro-osmosis has notable implementation possibilities in thermal
management and efficient electrokinetic micropumps. We present the coupled numerical …

Electroosmotic flow of a non-Newtonian fluid in a microchannel with heterogeneous surface potential

N Bag, S Bhattacharyya - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Based on the Nernst–Planck model for ion transport, the electroosmotic flow of a
non-Newtonian fluid near a surface potential heterogeneity is studied numerically. The …

Induced-charge electroosmosis flow of viscoelastic fluids under different voltage arrangements

X Wang, H Xu, H Qi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Efficient mixing of chemical analysis reagents with laboratory samples at a microscale is a
key issue in numerous biomedical and chemical analyses but hardly to implement due to the …

Mixing performance of viscoelastic fluids in an induced charge electroosmotic micromixer with a conductive cylinder

Y Chen, J Li, Z Lv, Y Wei, C Li - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - Elsevier
Effective mixing at the microscale is crucial in bioengineering and chemical engineering. In
this study, the mixing of viscoelastic fluids described by the Oldroyd-B constitutive model in …

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 …

Induced charge electroosmosis characteristics of viscoelastic fluid around a metal cylinder

Z Lv, L Zhang, H Wu, Y Wang, J Li - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2021 - Elsevier
The mixing of chemical analysis reagents at the microscale is critical. Most of the biological
fluids and polymer solutions used in the field of biomedicine belong to the category of non …

Enhanced electroosmotic flow of Herschel-Bulkley fluid in a channel patterned with periodically arranged slipping surfaces

S Bhattacharyya, N Bag - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we consider the electroosmotic flow (EOF) of a viscoplastic fluid within a slit
nanochannel modulated by periodically arranged uncharged slipping surfaces and no-slip …

Enhanced electroosmotic flow, conductance and ion selectivity of a viscoplastic fluid in a hydrophobic cylindrical pore

S Bhattacharyya, D Kundu - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
We have studied the electroosmotic flow (EOF) of a non-Newtonian viscoplastic fluid,
modeled as a Herschel-Bulkley (HB) fluid, through a single hydrophobic nanopore in a …

Electrolyte effect in induced charge electroosmosis

H Feng, Y Huang, TN Wong, F Duan - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper reports an interesting phenomenon that the velocity increases with increasing
sodium chloride (NaCl) concentration in induced charge electroosmosis (ICEO) around a …