Microfluidic analog of the four-roll mill

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 335-337

  Hudson, S D ^a   Phelan Jr , F R ^a   Handler, M D ^a   Cabral, J T ^a   Migler, K B ^a   Amis, E J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE CONTROL; FLOW SIMULATIONS; MICROFLUIDS; TRAPPING PARTICLES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; FLOW CONTROL; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS); VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ROLLING MILLS;

EID: 3242888392     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1767594     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. D. C. Prevorsek, in Handbook of Fiber Science and Technology, Vol. 3, Part D: High Technology Fibers, edited by M. Lewin and J. Preston (Marcel Dekker, New York, 1996).
2. A. J. Lovinger, Science 220, 1115 (1983).
3. G. I. Taylor, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A A146, 501 (1934).
4. B. J. Bentley and L. G. Leal, J. Fluid Mech. 167, 219 (1986).
5. J. J. L. Higdon, Phys. Fluids A 5, 274 (1993).
6. D. P. Pope and A. Keller, Colloid Polym. Sci. 255, 633 (1977).
7. S. Torza, J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Phys. Ed. 13, 43 (1975).
8. B. J. Bentley and L. G. Leal, J. Fluid Mech. 167, 241 (1986).
9. Y. T. Hu and A. Lips, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 044501 (2003).
10. H. Yang, C. C. Park, Y. T. Hu, and L. G. Leal, Phys. Fluids 13, 1087 (2001).
11. C. L. Colyer, T. Tang, N. Chiem, and D. J. Harrison, Electrophoresis 18, 1733. (1997).
12. D. R. Reyes, D. lossifidis, P. A. Auroux, and A. Manz, Anal. Chem. 74, 2623 (2002).
13. J. Knight, Nature (London) 418, 474 (2002).
14. J S. Hur, E. S. G. Shaqfeh, H. P. Babcock, and S. Chu, Phys. Rev. E 66, 011915 (2002).
15. C. M. Schroeder, H. P. Babcock, E. S. G. Shaqfeh, and S. Chu, Science 301, 1515 (2003).
16. G. Astarita, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 6, 69 (1979).
17. J P. Shelby, D. S. W. Lim, J. S. Kuo, and D. T. Chiu, Nature (London) 425, 38 (2003).
18. See EPAPS Document No. E-APPLAB-84-047426 for flow visualization videos and additional simulation results. A direct link to this document may be found in the online article's HTML reference section. The document may also be reached via the EPAPS homepage (http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps html) or from ftp.aip.org in the directory /epaps/. See the EPAPS homepage for more information.
19. Although simple shear may also be obtained using rollers [in the small gap limit between two rollers, or between parallel belt drives (Ref. 3)], simple shear cannot be obtained in the four-roll mill, because its square geometric arrangement does not correspond to the small gap limit.
20. A. Groisman, M. Enzelberger, and S. R. Quake, Science 300, 955 (2003).
21. http://www.pdesolutions.com. Certain commercial materials and equipment are identified in this paper in order to adequately specify the experimental procedure. In no case does such identification imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor does it imply that these are necessarily the best available for the purpose.