Analysis, Design and Fabrication of Micromixers, Volume II

• Other Authors: Kim, Kwang-Yong (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; microfluidics; micro-mixer; micro-jet; XFEL; molecular imaging; sample delivery; steric effect; power-law fluids; boundary slip; oscillatory electroosmotic flow; mass transport rate; passive mixing; curved mixing structure; confocal microscopy; mixing efficiency; light-actuated AC electroosmosis (LACE); microfluidic mixer; optical virtual electrode; electrokinetics; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); 3D printing; spiral micromixers; dean flow; trapezoidal cross-section; mixing index; convection and diffusion; Kenics micromixer; numerical simulation; non-Newtonian fluids; CMC solutions; low Reynolds number; passive micro-mixer; mixing unit; cross flow direction; baffle impingement; swirl motion; mixing performance; mixing; micromixer; density control; lab on a chip; pneumatically driven; acoustic streaming; acoustofluidics; computational fluid dynamics; artificial cilia; flow manipulation; biological/medical applications; chaotic micromixer; Nano-Non-Newtonian fluid; mass mixing index; thermal mixing index; low generalized Reynolds number; minimal mixing energy cost; degree of mixing (DOM); modified Tesla micromixer; tip clearance; symmetric counter-rotating vortices; drag and connection of interface; n/a
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Micromixers are an important component in micrototal analysis systems and lab-on-a-chip platforms which are widely used for sample preparation and analysis, drug delivery, and biological and chemical synthesis. The Special Issue "Analysis, Design and Fabrication of Micromixers II" published in Micromachines covers new mechanisms, numerical and/or experimental mixing analysis, design, and fabrication of various micromixers. This reprint includes an editorial, two review papers, and eleven research papers reporting on five active and six passive micromixers. Three of the active micromixers have electrokinetic driving force, but the other two are activated by mechanical mechanism and acoustic streaming. Three studies employs non-Newtonian working fluids, one of which deals with nano-non-Newtonian fluids. Most of the cases investigated micromixer design.