TY - JOUR
T1 - Micro-magnetofluidics in microfluidic systems
T2 - A review
AU - Yang, Ruey Jen
AU - Hou, Hui Hsiung
AU - Wang, Yao Nan
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 no. 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. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Ferrofluids have many traditional applications in the electrical, mechanical and optical fields, including transformers, dampers, imaging systems, and so on. However, in more recent years, the potential provided by ferrofluids to manipulate tiny quantities of liquid by means of external magnetic fields has attracted great interest in the microfluidics domain; resulting in the emergence of a new branch of scientific known as micro-magnetofluidics. This study reviews recent applications of micro-magnetofluidics techniques to six common microfluidic functions, namely micromixing, pumping, focusing, sorting, droplet formation and transfer phenomena. For each function, the fundamental interaction mechanisms between the ferrofluid and the magnetic field are described and the main experimental and numerical results are discussed.
AB - Ferrofluids have many traditional applications in the electrical, mechanical and optical fields, including transformers, dampers, imaging systems, and so on. However, in more recent years, the potential provided by ferrofluids to manipulate tiny quantities of liquid by means of external magnetic fields has attracted great interest in the microfluidics domain; resulting in the emergence of a new branch of scientific known as micro-magnetofluidics. This study reviews recent applications of micro-magnetofluidics techniques to six common microfluidic functions, namely micromixing, pumping, focusing, sorting, droplet formation and transfer phenomena. For each function, the fundamental interaction mechanisms between the ferrofluid and the magnetic field are described and the main experimental and numerical results are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.snb.2015.10.053
DO - 10.1016/j.snb.2015.10.053
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84946127873
SN - 0925-4005
VL - 224
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
JF - Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical
ER -