New insights into the mechanism of fluid mixing in the micromixer based on alternating current electric heating with film heaters

H Lv, X Chen - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2021 - Elsevier
In order to solve the problem of difficult mixing of high-conductivity solutions, this paper
designs a new mixing method of micromixer based on the alternating current (AC) heating …

A comprehensive geometrical study on an induced-charge electrokinetic micromixer equipped with electrically conductive plates

M Nazari, PYA Chuang, JA Esfahani… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a numerical study is performed on an induced-charge electrokinetic
micromixer. The electrically conductive plates are installed inside the micromixer to induce …

Mixing process and mass transfer in a novel design of induced-charge electrokinetic micromixer with a conductive mixing-chamber

M Nazari, S Rashidi, JA Esfahani - International Communications in Heat …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new design of induced-charge electrokinetic micromixer is proposed. The micromixer has
a mixing-chamber with conductive surfaces. Circular, square, triangular, and rhomboid …

Insights into a T-type micromixer with novel electromagnetic mixing

J Wang, Q Feng, J Yao, K Zhao - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2023 - Elsevier
A novel T-type electromagnetic micromixer is proposed by combining the effects of laminar
flow with Lorentz force in the microchannel. Through finite element simulation, the effects of …

Rapid mixing with high‐throughput in a semi‐active semi‐passive micromixer

G Kunti, A Bhattacharya, S Chakraborty - Electrophoresis, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we investigate a novel alternating current electrothermal (ACET) micromixer
driven by a high efficiency ACET micropump. The micromixer consists of thin film asymmetric …

A numerical study of an electrothermal vortex enhanced micromixer

J Cao, P Cheng, FJ Hong - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2008 - Springer
Temperature gradients aroused from the Joule heating in a non-uniform electrical field can
induce inhomogeneities of electric conductivity and permittivity of the electrolyte, thus …

Active micromixer using electrokinetic effects in the micro/nanochannel junction

S Yu, TJ Jeon, SM Kim - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2012 - Elsevier
We developed a novel active micromixer that uses a driving electrical voltage and combines
a microchannel and nanojunction. The microchannel was fabricated using the general soft …

Finding the optimal design of a Cantor fractal-based AC electric micromixer with film heating sheet by a three-objective optimization approach

H Lv, X Chen, X Li, Y Ma, D Zhang - International Communications in Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a three-objective optimization process for an Alternating Current
(AC) electrothermal theory-based micromixer. For the first time, we propose to combine the …

AC electroosmotic micromixer for chemical processing in a microchannel

N Sasaki, T Kitamori, HB Kim - Lab on a Chip, 2006 - pubs.rsc.org
A rapid micromixer of fluids in a microchannel is presented. The mixer uses AC
electroosmotic flow, which is induced by applying an AC voltage to a pair of coplanar …

A novel electrokinetic micromixer

HY Wu, CH Liu - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2005 - Elsevier
We propose and successfully demonstrate a novel microfluidic mixer that takes advantage of
field-effect control to dynamically manipulate local flow field to highly enhance mixing effect …