Generating electric fields in PDMS microfluidic devices with salt water electrodes.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1039/c4lc00078a and PMC identifier 4079735.
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Abstract
Droplet merging and sorting in microfluidic devices usually rely on electric fields generated by solid metal electrodes. We show that simpler and more reliable salt water electrodes, despite their lower conductivity, can perform the same droplet manipulations at the same voltages.
Medical subject headings
- Dimethylpolysiloxanes
- Electrochemical Techniques
- Microfluidic Analytical Techniques
- Sodium Chloride