Traveling-Wave Electrophoresis for Microfluidic Separations

Authors

Boyd F. Edwards, Utah State UniversityFollow
A. T. Timperman
R. Lloyd Carroll
K. Jo
J. M. Mease
J. E. Schiffbauer

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Physical Review Letters

Volume

102

Issue

7

Publisher

American Physical Society

Publication Date

2-2009

First Page

076103-1

Last Page

076103-4

Abstract

Models and microfluidic experiments are presented of an electrophoretic separation technique in which charged particles whose mobilities exceed a tunable threshold are trapped between the crests of a longitudinal electric wave traveling through a stationary viscous fluid. The wave is created by applying periodic potentials to electrode arrays above and below a microchannel. Predicted average velocities agree with experiments and feature chaotic attractors for intermediate mobilities.

Comments

http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.076103

Published by the American Physical Society in Physical Review Letters. Publisher PDF is available for download through the link above.

Recommended Citation

“Traveling-Wave Electrophoresis for Microfluidic Separations,” B. F. Edwards, A. T. Timperman, R. Lloyd Carroll, K. Jo, J. M. Mease, and J. E. Schiffbauer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076103 (2009) [2].