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Review: Electric Field Driven Pumping In Microfluidic Device, Mohammad R. Hossan, Diganta Dutta, Nazmul Islam, Prashanta Dutta
Review: Electric Field Driven Pumping In Microfluidic Device, Mohammad R. Hossan, Diganta Dutta, Nazmul Islam, Prashanta Dutta
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Pumping of fluids with precise control is one of the key components in a microfluidic device. The electric field has been used as one of the most popular and efficient nonmechanical pumping mechanism to transport fluids in microchannels from the very early stage of microfluidic technology development. This review presents fundamental physics and theories of the different microscale phenomena that arise due to the application of an electric field in fluids, which can be applied for pumping of fluids in microdevices. Specific mechanisms considered in this report are electroosmosis, AC electroosmosis, AC electrothermal, induced charge electroosmosis, traveling wave dielectrophoresis, and …