Bubbles in microfluidics: An all-purpose tool for micromanipulation

Y Li, X Liu, Q Huang, AT Ohta, T Arai - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, the integration of microfluidic devices and multiple actuation technologies
at the microscale has greatly contributed to the progress of related fields. In particular …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Acoustic bubble-based bidirectional micropump

Y Gao, M Wu, Y Lin, W Zhao, J Xu - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2020 - Springer
Efficient transportation of fluids and microparticles is an important capability in many medical
and biological applications. In this article, an efficient bi-directional micropump using …

The application of an applied electrical potential to generate electrical fields and forces to enhance affinity biosensors

DE Hagness, Y Yang, RD Tilley, JJ Gooding - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Affinity biosensors play a crucial role in clinical diagnosis, pharmaceuticals, immunology,
and other areas of human health. Affinity biosensors rely on the specific binding between …

On the design, functions, and biomedical applications of high-throughput dielectrophoretic micro-/nanoplatforms: a review

Y Li, Y Wang, K Wan, M Wu, L Guo, X Liu, G Wei - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As an efficient, rapid and label-free micro-/nanoparticle separation technique,
dielectrophoresis (DEP) has attracted widespread attention in recent years, especially in the …

A systematic overview of electrode configuration in electric‐driven micropumps

T Tavari, M Nazari, S Meamardoost, A Tamayol… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate manipulation of fluids in microfluidic devices is an important factor affecting their
functions. Since the emergence of microfluidic technology to transport fluids in …

Numerical investigation of continuous acoustic particle separation using electrothermal pumping in a point of care microfluidic device

A Ghasemi, A Ramiar - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
Acoustic microfluidics has many advantages; however, the method has an integration
limitation due to the pumping mechanism in which fluids could only be pumped using …

An asymmetric orifice-based active micromixer in the microfluidic chip with 3D microelectrode

K Zhao, Q Feng, J Yao, B Yang, J Wang - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
The fluid mixing in microscale is central to the development of flow patterns in microfluidic
chips for particles separation and biological analysis. Yet, as the size of the fluid decreases …

[HTML][HTML] Simulation of the slip velocity effect in an AC electrothermal micropump

F Echouchene, T Al-Shahrani, H Belmabrouk - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
The principal aim of this study was to analyze the effect of slip velocity at the microchannel
wall on an alternating current electrothermal (ACET) flow micropump fitted with several pairs …

Numerical investigation of the effect of electrode arrangement and geometry on electrothermal fluid flow pumping and mixing in microchannel

A Khakpour, A Ramiar - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
Micro-mixers, due to their vast applications in different fields have been of great interest to
the researchers in recent years. In this study, a transient two-dimensional solver was …