A microfluidic mixer utilizing electrokinetic relay switching and asymmetric flow geometries

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 395-403

  Yiou, Wang ^a   Jiang, Zhe ^a   Dutta, Prashanta ^b   Chung, Benjamin T ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrokinetic flow; Hybrid mixing; Microfluidic; Zeta potential

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC FLOW; ELECTROKINETIC FLOW; HYBRID MIXING; MODAL SPECTRAL EXPANSION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROOSMOSIS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NUMERICAL METHODS; ZETA POTENTIAL;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 34248219115     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2436578     Document Type: Article

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