Field-induced Dielectrophoresis and Phase Separation for Manipulating Particles in Microfluidics
Bennett D.J., Khusid B., James C.D., Galambos P.C., Okandan M., Jacqmin D., Kumar A., Qiu Z., Acrivos A., New Jersey Institute of Technology, US
We report observations of new many-body phenomena in the micro-scale behavior of a suspension subject to a high-gradient strong alternating current (ac) field and shear. Their origin is dielectrophoresis accompanied by the field-induced phase separation [...]