A fast passive and planar liquid sample micromixer

被引:64
作者
Melin, J [1 ]
Giménez, G [1 ]
Roxhed, N [1 ]
van der Wijngaart, W [1 ]
Stemme, G [1 ]
机构
[1] Royal Inst Technol, Dept Signals Sensors & Syst, SE-10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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10.1039/b314080f
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Q5 [生物化学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
A novel microdevice for passively mixing liquid samples based on surface tension and a geometrical mixing chamber is presented. Due to the laminar flow regime on the microscale, mixing becomes difficult if not impossible. We present a micromixer where a constantly changing time dependent flow pattern inside a two sample liquid plug is created as the plug simply passes through the planar mixer chamber. The device requires no actuation during mixing and is fabricated using a single etch process. The effective mixing of two coloured liquid samples is demonstrated.
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页码:214 / 219
页数:6
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