Acoustic mixing and chromatography in a PZT driven silicon microfluidic actuator

Araz, M.K.; Lal, Amit

doi:10.1109/memsys.2010.5442405

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“…Acoustic streaming, most likely fast coarse-grained streaming, was found to be present and driving the particles about the disks. Nine years later, the same group [Araz and Lal (2010)] reported on a microfluidic particle manipulation system for chromatography that makes use of PZT in vibrating a rather complex microstructure fabricated from polycrystalline Si, SiN, and SiO 2 to effectively separate 3 and 10 m particles out of a colloidal suspension.…”

Section: In Closed Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Microscale acoustofluidics: Microfluidics driven via acoustics and ultrasonics

2011

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This article reviews acoustic microfluidics: the use of acoustic fields, principally ultrasonics, for application in microfluidics. Although acoustics is a classical field, its promising, and indeed perplexing, capabilities in powerfully manipulating both fluids and particles within those fluids on the microscale to nanoscale has revived interest in it. The bewildering state of the literature and ample jargon from decades of research is reorganized and presented in the context of models derived from first principles. This hopefully will make the area accessible for researchers with experience in materials science, fluid mechanics, or dynamics. The abundance of interesting phenomena arising from nonlinear interactions in ultrasound that easily appear at these small scales is considered, especially in surface acoustic wave devices that are simple to fabricate with planar lithography techniques common in microfluidics, along with the many applications in microfluidics and nanofluidics that appear through the literature.

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Section: In Closed Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%