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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95404-w
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) within the priority program [SPP2045, BA 1893/2-1, PE 3015/3-2, TH 893/20-2]
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The study investigates retention mechanisms in a novel DEP scheme, and results show good agreement for separating binary PS particles mixtures based on size and surface functionalization. This method can be used for challenging separation tasks, such as separating particles with distributed properties.
Separation of (biological) particles (<< 10 mu m) according to size or other properties is an ongoing challenge in a variety of technical relevant fields. Dielectrophoresis is one method to separate particles according to a diversity of properties, and within the last decades a pool of dielectrophoretic separation techniques has been developed. However, many of them either suffer selectivity or throughput. We use simulation and experiments to investigate retention mechanisms in a novel DEP scheme, namely, frequency-modulated DEP. Results from experiments and simulation show a good agreement for the separation of binary PS particles mixtures with respect to size and more importantly, for the challenging task of separating equally sized microparticles according to surface functionalization alone. The separation with respect to size was performed using 2 mu m and 3 mu m sized particles, whereas separation with respect to surface functionalization was performed with 2 mu m particles. The results from this study can be used to solve challenging separation tasks, for example to separate particles with distributed properties.
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