A fast microfluidic mixer based on acoustically driven sidewall-trapped microbubbles

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 727-731

  Ahmed, Daniel ^a   Mao, Xiaole ^a,b   Juluri, Bala Krishna ^a   Huang, Tony Jun ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic microstreaming; Bubble trap; Microfluidics; Rapid mixing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSTREAMING; AIR BUBBLES; BUBBLE OSCILLATION; BUBBLE-TRAP; BULK LIQUID; FLOWING FLUID; FLUID FLOW; LIQUID/AIR INTERFACE; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MICRO-SCALES; MICROBUBBLES; MICROFLUIDIC MIXERS; MICROFLUIDIC STRUCTURES; MICROMIXING DEVICES; MICROSTREAMING; MIXING DEVICES; MIXING TIME; RAPID MIXING; TRAPPED BUBBLE; TWO-FLUID; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

ACOUSTICS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DEIONIZED WATER; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 70449526406     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-009-0444-3     Document Type: Article

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