Loire S. – TechConnect Briefs

Electrothermal blinking vortices for chaotic mixing

Kauffmann P., Loire S., Mezic I., UCSB, US

At microscale, an efficient mixing is a keystep which dramatically accelerates bio-reactions. This paper presents an experimental and theoretical study of electrothermal chaotic mixing. To do so, asymmetric vortices are blinked to perform time dependant [...]

Control of Particles Using Multi-Frequency DEP

Loire S., Zhang Y., Bottausci F., Mezic I., McDonald N., university of california, santa barbara, US

We present numerical simulations and experiments on dielectrophoretic (DEP) separation and trapping performed in a titanium-based microchannel linear electrode array. The device is designed to allow for effects driven by inhomogeneities in electric-field magnitude driven [...]