Combined alternating current electrothermal and dielectrophoresis-induced tunable patterning to actuate on-chip microreactions and switching at a floating electrode

H Sun, Y Ren, Y Tao, W Liu, T Jiang, H Jiang - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2020 - Elsevier
A unique platform to fabricate tunable micropatterns at an electrically floating electrode has
been developed via an enhanced combination of dielectrophoresis (DEP) and alternating …

Dynamically controlled dielectrophoresis using resonant tuning

P Padhy, MA Zaman, MA Jensen… - Electrophoresis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrically polarizable micro‐and nanoparticles and droplets can be trapped using the
gradient electric field of electrodes. But the spatial profile of the resultant dielectrophoretic …

A programmable and reconfigurable microfluidic chip

R Renaudot, V Agache, Y Fouillet, G Laffite… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This article reports an original concept enabling the rapid fabrication of continuous-flow
microfluidic chips with a programmable and reconfigurable geometry. The concept is based …

Joule heating‐enabled electrothermal enrichment of nanoparticles in insulator‐based dielectrophoretic microdevices

A Malekanfard, Z Liu, L Song, A Kale, C Zhang… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Insulator‐based dielectrophoresis (iDEP) exploits the electric field gradients formed around
insulating structures to manipulate particles for diverse microfluidic applications. Compared …

[HTML][HTML] Programmable electrowetting with channels and droplets

A Banerjee, JH Noh, Y Liu, PD Rack, I Papautsky - Micromachines, 2015 - mdpi.com
In this work, we demonstrate continuous and discrete functions in a digital microfluidic
platform in a programmed manner. Digital microfluidics is gaining popularity in biological …

Electrowetting-based digital microfluidics: Toward a full-functional miniaturized platform for biochemical and biological applications

X Liu, D Ma, H Ye, Y Hou, X Bai, Y Xing… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital microfluidics, with a distinctive manner of droplet actuation via electrowetting on
individually addressable electrodes, has made tremendous scientific and technical …

Flexible continuous particle beam switching via external-field-reconfigurable asymmetric induced-charge electroosmosis

H Sun, Y Ren, W Liu, X Feng, L Hou, Y Tao… - Analytical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Continuous sample switching is an essential process for developing an integrated platform
incorporating multiple functionality with applications typically ranging from chemical to …

Continuous particle trapping, switching, and sorting utilizing a combination of dielectrophoresis and alternating current electrothermal flow

H Sun, Y Ren, L Hou, Y Tao, W Liu, T Jiang… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We propose a simplified multifunctional traffic control approach that effectively combines
dielectrophoresis (DEP) and alternating current electrothermal (ACET) flow to realize …

Alternating-current nonlinear electrokinetics in microfluidic insulator-decorated bipolar electrochemistry

Y Tao, W Liu, Z Ge, B Yao, Y Ren - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We proposed herein a unique method of insulator-decorated bipolar electrochemistry
(IDBE), for realizing large-scale separation of bioparticles in microchannels driven by AC …

Electrically controllable microparticle synthesis and digital microfluidic manipulation by electric-field-induced droplet dispensing into immiscible fluids

T Um, J Hong, DJ Im, SJ Lee, IS Kang - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The dispensing of tiny droplets is a basic and crucial process in a myriad of applications,
such as DNA/protein microarray, cell cultures, chemical synthesis of microparticles and …