A journey of trains of droplets in droplet-based microfluidic devices

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:778-81. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943706.

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a microfluidic platform toseparate magnetic particles with a constant volumetric flow condition. In order to realize this architecture, three main functions for a droplet manipulation based system are integrated into a single device: synchronization of droplets by matching a location of droplets; lateral electro-coalescence; and magnetic particle manipulation. For an optimized condition of this device, a droplet generation was controlled by varying a droplet size at a fixed flow rate ratio 0.86. The electro-coalescence efficiency and maximum throughput are investigated at a given flow rate condition.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Electrochemical Techniques
  • Electrodes
  • Magnetics
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / instrumentation
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / methods*
  • Tin Compounds / chemistry

Substances

  • Tin Compounds
  • indium tin oxide