Exploiting the wall-induced non-inertial lift in electrokinetic flow for a continuous particle separation by size

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 620-627

  Lu, Xinyu ^a   Hsu, Jyh Ping ^b   Xuan, Xiangchun ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MIXTURES; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; POLYSTYRENES; SIZE SEPARATION;

ASYMMETRIC ELECTRIC FIELD; BINARY AND TERNARY MIXTURES; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; POLYSTYRENE MICRO-SPHERE; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; T-SHAPED MICROCHANNELS;

MICROCHANNELS;

ELECTRICITY; LAB ON A CHIP; PARTICLE SIZE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRICITY; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84921280209     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la5045464     Document Type: Article

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