Micro-drops and digital microfluidics / Jean Berthier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berthier, Jean.

Series:

Micro & nano technologies.

Micro & nano technologies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomizers.

Microfluidics--Equipment and supplies.

Microfluidics.

Spraying equipment.

Electrostatic atomization--Methodology.

Electrostatic atomization.

Microelectromechanical systems.

Drops.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p. ) col. ill.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Mass. : William Andrew, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explains how miniaturization techniques have expanded the area of microfluidic applications and microsystems into microdrops and digital microfluidics. This title analyses how droplets can be manipulated, handled, or transported using electric fields (electrowetting), acoustic actuation (surface acoustic waves). In this 2nd edition of Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics , Jean Berthier explores the fundamentals and applications of digital microfluidics, enabling engineers and scientists to design this important enabling technology into devices and harness the considerable potential of digital microfluidics in testing and data collection. This book describes the most recent developments in digital microfluidics, with a specific focus on the computational, theoretical and experimental study of microdrops. Unique in its emphasis on digital microfluidics and with diverse applications ranging from drug delivery to point-of-care diagnostic chips, organic synthesis to microreactors, Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics meets the needs of audiences across the fields of bioengineering and biotechnology, and electrical and chemical engineering. . Authoritative reporting on the latest changes in microfluidic science, where microscopic liquid volumes are handled as ""microdrops"" and separately from ""nanodrops."" . A methodical examination of how liquid microdrops behave in the complex geometries of modern miniaturized systems and interact with different morphological (micro-fabricated, textured) solid substrates. . A thorough explanation of how capillary forces act on liquid interfaces in contact with micro-fabricated surfaces. . Analysis of how droplets can be manipulated, handled, or transported using electric fields (electrowetting), acoustic actuation (surface acoustic waves), or by a carrier liquid (microflow). . A fresh perspective on the future of microfluidics.

Contents:

Introduction: Digital Microfluidics in Today's Microfluidics Theory of Wetting The Physics of Droplets Electrowetting Theory EWOD Microsystems Introduction to Liquid Dielectrophoresis Electrowetting on Curved Surfaces Biological Applications of EWOD Cell Manipulations in EWOD Chemical Applications DMF for Optofluidic Microdevices Droplet on Deformable Surfaces - Elasto-Capillarity and Electro-Elasto-Capillarity Acoustic Methods for Manipulating Droplets Introduction to Droplet Microfluidics and Multiphase Microflows Epilog

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85157-1

1-4557-2800-4