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 …

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 …

Numerical investigation into continuous separation of particles and cells in a two-component fluid flow using dielectrophoresis

R Derakhshan, A Ramiar, A Ghasemi - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2020 - Elsevier
Separation of microparticles and cells from a heterogeneous mixture is critical in the fields of
medicine, engineering, biology, and biotechnology. In this paper, a novel design for …

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 …

AC electrothermal actuation mechanism for on-chip mixing of high ionic strength fluids

M Ghandchi, RH Vafaie - Microsystem Technologies, 2017 - Springer
The ability to maintain a relative low temperature rise, portability and also achieve fast
mixing process is major advantage for high ionic strength processing, where high …

AC electrothermal assisted plasmonic biosensor for detection of low-concentration biological analytes

RH Vafaie, H Heidarzadeh - Optics & Laser Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The main challenges of the surface plasmon resonances (SPR) based biosensors are mass
transport limitations, which makes them more complicated in the detection of low …

Numerical simulation of a tuneable reversible flow design for practical ACET devices

T Lijnse, S Cenaiko, C Dalton - SN Applied Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Alternating Current Electrothermal (ACET) micropumps are a well-documented flow
induction and mixing method. This phenomenon has significant promise as a reliable …

A high-efficiency micromixing effect by pulsed AC electrothermal flow

R Hadjiaghaie Vafaie - … -The international journal for computation and …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose The on-chip high-throughput mixing process is one of the main challenges in the
preparation process in clinical diagnostics. Because of high laminar flow in micro-channel …

Numerical simulation of EWOD on a printed circuit board for cleanroom-less digital fluidic manufacturing applications

RH Vafaie, H Dehganpour… - COMPEL-The international …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose Digital microfluidic devices have been demonstrated to have great potential for a
wide range of applications. These devices need expensive photolithography process and …

Theoretical and simulational study of electrowetting on dielectric (EWOD) effect

RH Vafaie, BS Dudkanlu… - … Engineering (ICEE), Iranian …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrowetting mechanism has been recently employed to enhance the manipulation
process in biomedical engineering. In this research, we have described the Electrowetting …