Controlling liquid drops with texture ratchets.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1002/adma.201104446.
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Abstract
Controlled vibration selectively propels multiple microliter-sized drops along microstructured tracks, leading to simple microfluidic systems that rectify oscillations of the three-phase contact line into asymmetric pinning forces that propel each drop in the direction of higher pinning.
Medical subject headings
- Microfluidic Analytical Techniques
- Motion
- Water