Engineering particle trajectories in microfluidic flows using particle shape

Recent advances in microfluidic technologies have created a demand for techniques to control the motion of flowing microparticles. Here we consider how the shape and geometric confinement of a rigid microparticle can be tailored for ‘self-steering’ under external flow. We find that an asymmetric par...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Uspal, William E., Doyle, Patrick S., Eral, Huseyin Burak
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97004