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 …

Micro total analysis systems. Latest advancements and trends

PS Dittrich, K Tachikawa, A Manz - Analytical chemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
The area of micro total analysis systems (μTAS), also called “lab on a chip”, miniaturized or
microfluidic analysis systems, is a rapidly developing field. During the last several years, we …

Single-phase fluid flow and mixing in microchannels

V Kumar, M Paraschivoiu, KDP Nigam - Chemical Engineering Science, 2011 - Elsevier
In the last decade there has been an exponential increase in microfluidic applications due to
high surface-to-volume ratios and compactness of microscale devices, which makes them …

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 …

A review on the application, simulation, and experiment of the electrokinetic mixers

S Rashidi, H Bafekr, MS Valipour… - Chemical Engineering and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Electrokinetic driven flow can be used as an active technique to improve mixing in various
devices. This technique is employed to mix fluid samples rapidly and efficiently in different …

A rapid three-dimensional vortex micromixer utilizing self-rotation effects under low Reynolds number conditions

CH Lin, CH Tsai, LM Fu - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper proposes a novel three-dimensional (3D) vortex micromixer for micro-total-
analysis-systems (μTAS) applications which utilizes self-rotation effects to mix fluids in a …

Rapid mixing with high‐throughput in a semi‐active semi‐passive micromixer

G Kunti, A Bhattacharya, S Chakraborty - Electrophoresis, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we investigate a novel alternating current electrothermal (ACET) micromixer
driven by a high efficiency ACET micropump. The micromixer consists of thin film asymmetric …

Analysis of micromixing of non-Newtonian fluids driven by alternating current electrothermal flow

G Kunti, A Bhattacharya, S Chakraborty - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biochemical applications pertaining to chip scale mixing often deal with fluids which exhibit
non-Newtonian behavior. This paper presents numerical investigations on the …

Rapid magnetic microfluidic mixer utilizing AC electromagnetic field

CY Wen, CP Yeh, CH Tsai, LM Fu - Electrophoresis, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a novel simple micromixer based on stable water suspensions of
magnetic nanoparticles (ie ferrofluids). The micromixer chip is built using standard …

Micromixers and their applications in kinetic analysis of biochemical reactions

C Liu, Y Li, BF Liu - Talanta, 2019 - Elsevier
Investigating the kinetics of biochemical reactions plays vital roles in understanding the
reaction mechanism. However, many biochemical reactions occur in the time scale of …