Issue 15, 2014
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Lab on a Chip

Generating electric fields in PDMS microfluidic devices with salt water electrodes

Adam Sciambia  and  Adam R. Abate*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
E-mail: adam.abate@ucsf.edu

Abstract

Droplet merging and sorting in microfluidic devices usually rely on electric fields generated by solid metal electrodes. We show that simpler and more reliable salt water electrodes, despite their lower conductivity, can perform the same droplet manipulations at the same voltages.

Graphical abstract: Generating electric fields in PDMS microfluidic devices with salt water electrodes

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4LC00078A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Jan 2014
Accepted
17 Mar 2014
First published
17 Mar 2014

Lab Chip, 2014,14, 2605-2609

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Generating electric fields in PDMS microfluidic devices with salt water electrodes

A. Sciambi and A. R. Abate, Lab Chip, 2014, 14, 2605 DOI: 10.1039/C4LC00078A

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