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BIOMICROFLUIDICS
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3676069
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- Asian Office Aerospace Research & Development (AOARD) [114083]
- National Science Council (ROC) [96-2112-M-001-024-MY3, 99-2112-M-001-027-MY3]
- Academia Sinica Nanoscience Program
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We present an electrokinetic framework for designing insulator constriction-based dielectrophoresis devices with enhanced ability to trap nanoscale biomolecules in physiological media of high conductivity, through coupling short-range dielectrophoresis forces with long-range electrothermal flow. While a 500-fold constriction enables field focusing sufficient to trap nanoscale biomolecules by dielectrophoresis, the extent of this high-field region is enhanced through coupling the constriction to an electrically floating sensor electrode at the constriction floor. However, the enhanced localized fields due to the constriction and enhanced current within saline media of high conductivity (1 S/m) cause a rise in temperature due to Joule heating, resulting in a hotspot region midway within the channel depth at the constriction center, with temperatures of similar to 8 degrees-10 degrees K above the ambient. While the resulting vortices from electrothermal flow are directed away from the hotspot region to oppose dielectrophoretic trapping, they also cause a downward and inward flow towards the electrode edges at the constriction floor. This assists biomolecular trapping at the sensor electrode through enabling long-range fluid sampling as well as through localized stirring by fluid circulation in its vicinity. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3676069]
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