期刊
ELECTROPHORESIS
卷 43, 期 21-22, 页码 2074-2092出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/elps.202200146
关键词
electroosmosis; field-effect flow control; gate electrode; hybrid electrokinetics; nanoparticle enrichment
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [12172064, 12072096]
- Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province [2022GY-208, 2021KW-13]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities CHD [300102322201]
- State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System
This study introduces an effective method for continuous delivery and position-switchable trapping of nanoparticles through field-effect control on hybrid electrokinetics (HEK). By combining linear and nonlinear electroosmosis, the proposed microfluidic nanoparticle concentrator enables the precise manipulation of nanoparticles.
We introduce herein an effective way for continuous delivery and position-switchable trapping of nanoparticles via field-effect control on hybrid electrokinetics (HEK). Flow field-effect transistor exploiting HEK delicately combines horizontal linear electroosmosis and transversal nonlinear electroosmosis of a shiftable flow stagnation line (FSL) on gate terminals under DC-biased AC forcing. The microfluidic nanoparticle concentrator proposed herein makes use of a simple device geometry, in which an individual or a series of planar metal strips serving as gate electrode (GE) are subjected to a hybrid gate voltage signal and arranged in parallel between a pair of 3D driving electrodes. On the application of a DC-biased AC electric field across channel length direction, all the GE are electrochemically polarized, and the action of imposed hybrid electric field on the multiple-frequency bipolar counterions within the composite-induced double layer generates two counter-rotating induced-charge electroosmotic (ICEO) micro-vortices on top of each GE. Symmetry breaking in ICEO flow profile occurs once the gate voltage deviates from natural floating potential of corresponding GE. The gate voltage offset not only results in an additional pump motion of working fluid for enhanced electroosmotic transport but also directly changes the location of FSL where nanoparticles are preferentially collected by field-effect HEK. Our results of field-effect control on HEK are supposed to guide an elaborate design of flexible electrokinetic frameworks embedding coplanar metal strips for a high degree of freedom analyte manipulation in modern micro-total-analytical systems.
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