TY - JOUR
T1 - Passive mixers in microfluidic systems
T2 - A review
AU - Lee, Chia Yen
AU - Wang, Wen Teng
AU - Liu, Chan Chiung
AU - Fu, Lung Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the financial support provided by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan under Grant Nos: MOST 103-2320-B-020-001-MY3 , MOST 103-2221-E-020-025-MY3 , and MOST 103-2622-B-020-007-CC2 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2016/3/15
Y1 - 2016/3/15
N2 - The aim of microfluidic mixing is to achieve a thorough and rapid mixing of multiple samples in microscale devices. In such devices, sample mixing is essentially achieved by enhancing the diffusion effect between the different species flows. Passive micromixers utilize no energy input other than the pressure head used to drive the fluid flow at a constant rate. Under such conditions, the flow has a laminar characteristic, and hence mixing relies mainly on the induction of a chaotic advection effect to increase the contact surface and contact time between the species flows. Many passive mixers have been proposed to facilitate this task over the past five years. The details of these mixers are briefly described in the following review.
AB - The aim of microfluidic mixing is to achieve a thorough and rapid mixing of multiple samples in microscale devices. In such devices, sample mixing is essentially achieved by enhancing the diffusion effect between the different species flows. Passive micromixers utilize no energy input other than the pressure head used to drive the fluid flow at a constant rate. Under such conditions, the flow has a laminar characteristic, and hence mixing relies mainly on the induction of a chaotic advection effect to increase the contact surface and contact time between the species flows. Many passive mixers have been proposed to facilitate this task over the past five years. The details of these mixers are briefly described in the following review.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cej.2015.10.122
DO - 10.1016/j.cej.2015.10.122
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84949908554
SN - 1385-8947
VL - 288
SP - 146
EP - 160
JO - Chemical Engineering Journal
JF - Chemical Engineering Journal
ER -