This review article presents an overview on the application of electrohydrodynamics and Joule heating effects in microfluidic chips.A brief introduction of microfluidic chips and a classification of electrohydrodynami...This review article presents an overview on the application of electrohydrodynamics and Joule heating effects in microfluidic chips.A brief introduction of microfluidic chips and a classification of electrohydrodynamics as well as the applications in microfluidic devices are first given.Then basic theories and governing equations of classical electromagnetics are summarized and electroviscous effects in pressure driven flows in a microchannel are presented.Principles and applications of DC electrokinetics,including DC electroosmotic flow,DC electrophoresis,as well as principles of AC electrokinetics,including AC electroosmotic flow and dielectrophoresis are also reviewed.Finally,Joule heating effects in both DC and AC electrokinetics,especially the newly discovered electrothermal flow,are summaried.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.50536010)the Shanghai Municipal Science&Technology Committee through Key Fundamental(Grant No.08JC1411100)
文摘This review article presents an overview on the application of electrohydrodynamics and Joule heating effects in microfluidic chips.A brief introduction of microfluidic chips and a classification of electrohydrodynamics as well as the applications in microfluidic devices are first given.Then basic theories and governing equations of classical electromagnetics are summarized and electroviscous effects in pressure driven flows in a microchannel are presented.Principles and applications of DC electrokinetics,including DC electroosmotic flow,DC electrophoresis,as well as principles of AC electrokinetics,including AC electroosmotic flow and dielectrophoresis are also reviewed.Finally,Joule heating effects in both DC and AC electrokinetics,especially the newly discovered electrothermal flow,are summaried.
