Sheathless elasto-inertial particle focusing and continuous separation in a straight rectangular microchannel

Lab on a Chip ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seungyoung Yang ◽  
Jae Young Kim ◽  
Seong Jae Lee ◽  
Sung Sik Lee ◽  
Ju Min Kim
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Wang ◽  
Sifan Sun ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
Zhengdong Cheng ◽  
Yuxiu Li ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joo Young Kwon ◽  
Dong-Ki Lee ◽  
Jungwoo Kim ◽  
Young Hak Cho

AbstractIn this study, particle focusing phenomena are studied in parallelogram and rectangular cross-sectioned microchannels of varying aspect ratio. In contrast to prior work the microchannels were fabricated using anisotropic wet etching of a Si wafer, plasma bonding, and self-alignment between the Si channel and the PDMS mold. It is shown that the inertial focusing points of the fabricated microchannels of parallelogram and rectangular cross-section were modified as the aspect ratio of the microchannels changed. The particle focusing points of the parallelogram profiled microchannel are compared with those of the rectangular microchannel through experimental measurements and CFD simulation. It is shown that particles can be efficiently focused and separated at a relatively low Reynolds number using a parallelogram profiled microchannel with a low aspect ratio.


RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 3461-3469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Yuan ◽  
Say Hwa Tan ◽  
Qianbin Zhao ◽  
Sheng Yan ◽  
Ronald Sluyter ◽  
...  

Sheathless particle focusing and separation in viscoelastic fluid is demonstrated using an integrated ECCA (straight channel section with asymmetrical expansion–contraction cavity arrays) straight channel.


Lab on a Chip ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 568-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinning Zhou ◽  
Zhichao Ma ◽  
Ye Ai

We explore the use of non-Newtonian viscoelastic fluids to achieve size-tunable elasto-inertial particle focusing and sorting in a microfluidic device, and realize the controllable tunability among three separation thresholds.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenlai Tang ◽  
Ning Fan ◽  
Jiquan Yang ◽  
Zongan Li ◽  
Liya Zhu ◽  
...  

Lab on a Chip ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (14) ◽  
pp. 2626-2635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Xiang ◽  
Xinjie Zhang ◽  
Qing Dai ◽  
Jie Cheng ◽  
Ke Chen ◽  
...  

We experimentally explore the elasto-inertial particle focusing in curved microfluidic channels and propose a six-stage process model illustrating the particle focusing with increasing flow rate.


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