A review on micromixers

G Cai, L Xue, H Zhang, J Lin - Micromachines, 2017 - mdpi.com
Microfluidic devices have attracted increasing attention in the fields of biomedical
diagnostics, food safety control, environmental protection, and animal epidemic prevention …

Applications of micromixing technology

GS Jeong, S Chung, CB Kim, SH Lee - Analyst, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents an application of micromixer technologies, which have driven a
number of critical research trends over the past few decades, particularly for chemical and …

Inherently aligned microfluidic electrodes composed of liquid metal

JH So, MD Dickey - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes the fabrication and characterization of microelectrodes that are
inherently aligned with microfluidic channels and in direct contact with the fluid in the …

Competition between diffusion and electroconvection at an ion-selective surface in intensive current regimes

VV Nikonenko, VI Vasil'Eva, EM Akberova… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Considering diffusion near a solid surface and simplifying the shape of concentration profile
in diffusion-dominated layer allowed Nernst and Brunner to propose their famous equation …

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 …

Flow-switching and mixing phenomena in electroosmotic flows of viscoelastic fluids

MB Khan, F Hamid, N Ali, V Mehandia, C Sasmal - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The present study uses numerical simulations and experiments to investigate the
electroosmotic flows of viscoelastic fluids through a microchannel containing a cylindrical …

A simple yet efficient approach for electrokinetic mixing of viscoelastic fluids in a straight microchannel

C Sasmal - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Many complex fluids such as emulsions, suspensions, biofluids, etc., are routinely
encountered in many micro and nanoscale systems. These fluids exhibit non-Newtonian …

Three-dimensional coherent structures of electrokinetic instability

EA Demekhin, NV Nikitin, VS Shelistov - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
A direct numerical simulation of the three-dimensional elektrokinetic instability near a charge-
selective surface (electric membrane, electrode, or system of micro-or nanochannels) has …

Integration of microfluidic systems with external fields for multiphase process intensification

M Yang, Y Gao, Y Liu, G Yang, CX Zhao… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Multiphase flows are widely used in process industries. How to enhance the mass and
energy transfer of multiphase flow systems thus improving mixing, reaction, separation …

Strong effect of fluid rheology on electrokinetic instability and subsequent mixing phenomena in a microfluidic T-junction

F Hamid, C Sasmal - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
When two fluids of different electrical conductivities are transported under the influence of an
electric field, the electrokinetic instability (EKI) phenomenon often triggers in a microfluidic …