Microfluidic Design of Magnetoresponsive Photonic Microcylinders with Multicompartments

Colloidal photonic structures have been designed to have granular format to use them for paint pigments, encoded carriers, and display pixels. However, conventional approaches only provide spherical or discoid shapes, restricting their applications. Cylindrical granules with fan‐shaped compartments in the cross section are appealing for microcarriers with abundant optical codes and active display pigments for color switching. In this work, a stratified laminar flow of concentrated silica particles is employed, formed in a cylindrical microchannel, to produce cylindrical photonic microparticles with multiple compartments. To accomplish this, a microfluidic device is designed to have one cylindrical main channel connected with four branch channels. Four different photocurable suspensions are independently injected through the branches to form quarter‐cylindrically compartmentalized streams in the main channel. Local ultraviolet irradiation on the main channel polymerizes the suspension, thereby forming cylindrical microparticles with four compartments. In each compartment, silica particles form ordered array which develops particle size–dependent structural color. Therefore, different colors can be incorporated into single microcylinder by employing different sizes of silica particles. Moreover, one of the compartments can be rendered to be magnetoresponsive by embedding aligned magnetic particles, which enables the remote control of microcylinder orientation and therefore the switching of structural colors.     

微通道内高通量磁泳分离实验研究

磁泳是实现生物分离的主要手段之一.利用功能磁珠在微流控芯片上实现高效磁泳分离是近年来的研究热点.对直径为1μm的超顺磁磁珠在当量直径为114.3μm的矩形微通道内的磁泳分离特性进行了实验研究.利用高速CCD观测了磁珠在微通道内捕获与释放的全过程,并通过图像分析,得到了磁珠的捕获情况随时间及流速的变化规律.实验发现,在高...     

Artificial Cilia: Generation of Magnetic Actuators in Microfluidic Systems

Magnetic artificial cilia are fabricated from photoreactive copolymer precursors filled with magnetic nanoparticles by a new photolithographic process. Two different crosslinkers and UV‐radiation of two different wavelengths are used to generate arrays of planar magnetically actuatable rubber flaps. The cilia are integrated into a microfluidic channel and operated in water using a rotating permanent magnet.     

三维交流电渗流泵的流量增强效果

在交流电渗流(ACEO)泵的研究中,一般忽略电极厚度的影响;而三维交流电渗流泵通过将电极厚度设计成台阶形式后,可以大大提高电渗流泵的流量。数值研究了电极台阶高度对三维交流电渗流泵流量的影响。研究发现:在驱动电压幅值不变的条件下,随着台阶高度的增加,三维交流电渗流泵流量也会增大;而当台阶高度增加到一定程度后,流量又会随着台阶高度的增加而减小。因此,在三维交流电渗流泵的设计制造中,需要优化电极的台阶高度,选择合适的台阶高度可以极大地提高电渗流泵的流量。通过和传统交流电渗流泵的比较,还研究了三维交流电渗流泵对流量的增强效果。结果表明:在相同模型尺寸参数下,优化台阶高度后的三维交流电渗流泵能极大提高流量。