In this work,a rotary pump based micromixer for on-chip rapid mixing and liquid transportation is demonstrated and characterized.Both pumping and mixing are realized using a microfluidic chip with a single structural ...In this work,a rotary pump based micromixer for on-chip rapid mixing and liquid transportation is demonstrated and characterized.Both pumping and mixing are realized using a microfluidic chip with a single structural polydimethylsiloxane layer and a portable electric control system.The rotary pump consists of an annular channel and is driven by a motor and magnets.The flow field caused by the peristaltic movement of the channel membrane of the rotary pump is simulated and analyzed.By statistically calculating and comparing the normalized standard deviations of the flow velocity components in a microchannel,it is revealed that up-and-down mixing is the fastest,followed by segment mixing and parallel mixing.Two mixing styles,segment mixing and parallel mixing,were experimentally demonstrated using the chip.The pump achieved 90% of the mixing index in 1 s for the segment mixing type.As for the parallel mixing type,the mixing index was up to 90% after 5 s,which is more than 100-fold improvement compared to conventional mixing by interfacial diffusion.The mixing speeds in both directions were improved prominently by increasing the rotational speed of the pump.展开更多
In this paper, a purely mechanical model for the thermoelastic behavior of a bimorph microbeam is presented. The thermoelastic coupling problem of the microbeam is converted to a mechanical problem by simply replacing...In this paper, a purely mechanical model for the thermoelastic behavior of a bimorph microbeam is presented. The thermoelastic coupling problem of the microbeam is converted to a mechanical problem by simply replacing the thermal stress in the beam with a bulk force and a surface force. Thermoelastic deformation of the bimorph microbeams with constraints frequently used in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices has been derived based on this model and is characterized by FEA simulation. Coincidence of the results from theory and simulation demonstrates the validity of the model. The analysis shows that a bimorph microbeam with a soft constraint and a uniform temperature field has a larger thermoelastic deformation than that with a hard constraint and a linear temperature field. In addition to the adoption of materials with large CTE mismatch,thickness ratio and length ratio of the two layers need to be optimized to get a large thermoelastic deformation.展开更多
基金supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China ((Grant No. 2007CB310504)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50730009)
文摘In this work,a rotary pump based micromixer for on-chip rapid mixing and liquid transportation is demonstrated and characterized.Both pumping and mixing are realized using a microfluidic chip with a single structural polydimethylsiloxane layer and a portable electric control system.The rotary pump consists of an annular channel and is driven by a motor and magnets.The flow field caused by the peristaltic movement of the channel membrane of the rotary pump is simulated and analyzed.By statistically calculating and comparing the normalized standard deviations of the flow velocity components in a microchannel,it is revealed that up-and-down mixing is the fastest,followed by segment mixing and parallel mixing.Two mixing styles,segment mixing and parallel mixing,were experimentally demonstrated using the chip.The pump achieved 90% of the mixing index in 1 s for the segment mixing type.As for the parallel mixing type,the mixing index was up to 90% after 5 s,which is more than 100-fold improvement compared to conventional mixing by interfacial diffusion.The mixing speeds in both directions were improved prominently by increasing the rotational speed of the pump.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91023027)
文摘In this paper, a purely mechanical model for the thermoelastic behavior of a bimorph microbeam is presented. The thermoelastic coupling problem of the microbeam is converted to a mechanical problem by simply replacing the thermal stress in the beam with a bulk force and a surface force. Thermoelastic deformation of the bimorph microbeams with constraints frequently used in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices has been derived based on this model and is characterized by FEA simulation. Coincidence of the results from theory and simulation demonstrates the validity of the model. The analysis shows that a bimorph microbeam with a soft constraint and a uniform temperature field has a larger thermoelastic deformation than that with a hard constraint and a linear temperature field. In addition to the adoption of materials with large CTE mismatch,thickness ratio and length ratio of the two layers need to be optimized to get a large thermoelastic deformation.
