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Redox-Magnetohydrodynamic (Mhd) Microfluidics: Fundamentals, Optimization, And Applications To Analytical Chemistry, Melissa Christine Weston
Redox-Magnetohydrodynamic (Mhd) Microfluidics: Fundamentals, Optimization, And Applications To Analytical Chemistry, Melissa Christine Weston
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Microfluidic systems are of great interest in analytical chemistry for the development of lab-on-a-chip devices. This dissertation describes fundamental investigations of magnetohydrodynamics with added redox species (redox-MHD) as a new microfluidic approach for use in analytical applications. Redox-MHD is attractive because it offers a unique combination of desirable features that are otherwise only available separately with individual micropumps. Redox-MHD is compatible with aqueous and nonaqueous solutions, does not require moving parts, easily reverses flow direction, and requires only low voltages. An ion flux is generated from the oxidation or reduction of an electroactive species at specific locations by activated electrodes …