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Electro-Osmotic Flow Over A Charged Superhydrophobic Surface, Hui Zhao
Electro-Osmotic Flow Over A Charged Superhydrophobic Surface, Hui Zhao
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research
Bubbles can be trapped inside textured structures such as grooves, forming a superhydrophobic surface. A superhydrophobic surface has a large effective hydrodynamic slip length compared to a smooth hydrophobic surface and holds the promise of enhancing electrokinetic flows that find many interesting applications in microfluidics. However, recent theoretical studies suggested that electro-osmotic flows over a weakly charged superhydrophobic surface
the zeta potential of the surface is smaller than the thermal potential (25 mV) can only be enhanced when liquid-gas interfaces are charged [T. M. Squires, Phys. Fluids 20, 092105 (2008); Bahga et al., J. Fluid Mech. 644, 245 (2010)]. So …