Transport of Multivalent Electrolyte Mixtures in Micro- and Nanochannels

Abstract

The major goal of this research is to understand charged biomolecules in a biofluid flowing through a micro-or nanochannel interact with a charged surface in the presence of an applied electric field parallel to the wall. In the third and final year of this work, the experimental effort at Georgia Tech has focused on studying the dynamics of colloidal particles, as a model of large charged biomolecules, in combined electroosmotic and Poiseuille flow through microchannels, i.e., in the presence of an applied electric field parallel to the wall and flow shear. The research group at Ohio State has provided theoretical and computational expertise in predicting particle trajectories,