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CHEMICAL REVIEWS
Volume 122, Issue 7, Pages 6938-6985Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00459
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This review comprehensively discusses the applications of evaporation, pervaporation, and forward osmosis at the microfluidic scales, highlighting both the differences and similarities between these passive-transport phenomena.
Evaporation, pervaporation, and forward osmosis are processes leading to a mass transfer of solvent across an interface: gas/liquid for evaporation and solid/liquid (membrane) for pervaporation and osmosis. This Review provides comprehensive insight into the use of these processes at the microfluidic scales for applications ranging from passive pumping to the screening of phase diagrams and micromaterials engineering. Indeed, for a fixed interface relative to the microfluidic chip, these processes passively induce flows driven only by gradients of chemical potential. As a consequence, these passive-transport phenomena lead to an accumulation of solutes that cannot cross the interface and thus concentrate solutions in the microfluidic chip up to high concentration regimes, possibly up to solidification. The purpose of this Review is to provide a unified description of these processes and associated microfluidic applications to highlight the differences and similarities between these three passive-transport phenomena.
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