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- Title
Force and Velocity Analysis of Particles Manipulated by Toroidal Vortex on Optoelectrokinetic Microfluidic Platform.
- Authors
Zhang, Sheng-Jie; Yang, Zong-Rui; Kuo, Ju-Nan
- Abstract
The rapid electrokinetic patterning (REP) technique has been demonstrated to enable dynamic particle manipulation in biomedical applications. Previous studies on REP have generally considered particles with a size less than 5 μm. In this study, a REP platform was used to manipulate polystyrene particles with a size of 3~11 μm in a microfluidic channel sandwiched between two ITO conductive glass plates. The effects of the synergy force produced by the REP electrothermal vortex on the particle motion were investigated numerically for fixed values of the laser power, AC driving voltage, and AC driving frequency, respectively. The simulation results showed that the particles were subject to a competition effect between the drag force produced by the toroidal vortex, which prompted the particles to recirculate in the bulk flow adjacent to the laser illumination spot on the lower electrode, and the trapping force produced by the particle and electrode interactions, which prompted the particles to aggregate in clusters on the surface of the illuminated spot. The experimental results showed that as the laser power increased, the toroidal flow range over which the particles circulated in the bulk flow increased, while the cluster range over which the particles were trapped on the electrode surface reduced. The results additionally showed that the particle velocity increased with an increasing laser power, particularly for particles with a smaller size. The excitation frequency at which the particles were trapped on the illuminated hot-spot reduced as the particle size increased. The force and velocity of polystyrene particles by the REP toroidal vortex has implications for further investigating the motion behavior at the biological cell level.
- Subjects
PARTICLE analysis; PARTICLE motion; VELOCITY; DRAG (Aerodynamics); CLUSTERING of particles; PARTICLE interactions; VORTEX motion; DRAG force
- Publication
Micromachines, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 12, p2245
- ISSN
2072-666X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/mi13122245