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 …

Review on the physics of electrospray: from electrokinetics to the operating conditions of single and coaxial Taylor cone-jets, and AC electrospray

AM Ganán-Calvo, JM López-Herrera… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, we review the physics of the liquid ejection by the application of electric fields,
paying special attention to the steady cone-jet mode of electrospray. We aim to provide a …

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 …

Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale

TM Squires, SR Quake - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
Microfabricated integrated circuits revolutionized computation by vastly reducing the space,
labor, and time required for calculations. Microfluidic systems hold similar promise for the …

Electro-osmotic slip and electroconvective instability

B Zaltzman, I Rubinstein - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2007 - cambridge.org
Electric conduction from an electrolyte solution into a charge selective solid, such as ion
exchange membrane or electrode, becomes unstable when the electrolyte concentration …

Electrokinetic mixing in microfluidic systems

CC Chang, RJ Yang - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2007 - Springer
The applications of electrokinetics in the development of microfluidic devices have been
widely attractive in the past decade. Electrokinetic devices generally require no external …

Electroconvection near electrochemical interfaces: Experiments, modeling, and computation

A Mani, KM Wang - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Many electrochemical and microfluidic systems involve voltage-driven transport of ions from
a fluid electrolyte toward an ion-selective interface. These systems are governed by intimate …

A state-of-the-art review of mixing in microfluidic mixers

EA Mansur, YE Mingxing, W Yundong… - Chinese Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
Microreaction technology is one of the most innovative and rapid developing fields in
chemical engineering, synthesis and process technology. Many expectations toward …

Isotachophoresis: theory and microfluidic applications

A Ramachandran, JG Santiago - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Isotachophoresis (ITP) is a versatile electrophoretic technique that can be used for sample
preconcentration, separation, purification, and mixing, and to control and accelerate …

Comparative assessment of mixing characteristics and pressure drop in spiral and serpentine micromixers

E Tripathi, PK Patowari, S Pati - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, numerical simulations are carried out to analyze the mixing performance and
pressure drop of water and ethyl alcohol in a spiral micromixer for Reynolds number in the …