TY - JOUR
T1 - A microfluidic platform for manipulation and separation of oil-in-water emulsion droplets using optically induced dielectrophoresis
AU - Hung, Shih-Hsun
AU - Lin, Yen-Heng
AU - Lee, Gwo-Bin
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PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A microfluidic platform for manipulation and separation of oil-in-water emulsion droplets by using optically induced dielectrophoresis (ODEP) is reported in this study. By utilizing different scanning speeds of a moving light beam, the oil-in-water emulsion droplets can be moved and separated with a high separation resolution. A first demonstration of this platform is pre-separation and fine separation of emulsion droplets. Three groups of droplets with different sizes (40-43, 20-30 and 2-8 μm) can be roughly separated first. The fine separation of emulsion droplets with a radius difference of 2.5 μm can be performed using a moving light beam with a gradual gradient of moving speeds. To avoid the collision and overlapping of the droplets, a new approach to assign individual moving track for each droplet was adopted by using well-defined moving light patterns. Accordingly, droplets with five different sizes (30, 20, 10, 7.5 and 5 μm) can be successfully separated. The second demonstration is to separate satellite and master emulsion droplets generated from microfluidic emulsion chips. The developed platform has a great potential to control the quality of emulsion droplets. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.
AB - A microfluidic platform for manipulation and separation of oil-in-water emulsion droplets by using optically induced dielectrophoresis (ODEP) is reported in this study. By utilizing different scanning speeds of a moving light beam, the oil-in-water emulsion droplets can be moved and separated with a high separation resolution. A first demonstration of this platform is pre-separation and fine separation of emulsion droplets. Three groups of droplets with different sizes (40-43, 20-30 and 2-8 μm) can be roughly separated first. The fine separation of emulsion droplets with a radius difference of 2.5 μm can be performed using a moving light beam with a gradual gradient of moving speeds. To avoid the collision and overlapping of the droplets, a new approach to assign individual moving track for each droplet was adopted by using well-defined moving light patterns. Accordingly, droplets with five different sizes (30, 20, 10, 7.5 and 5 μm) can be successfully separated. The second demonstration is to separate satellite and master emulsion droplets generated from microfluidic emulsion chips. The developed platform has a great potential to control the quality of emulsion droplets. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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U2 - 10.1088/0960-1317/20/4/045026
DO - 10.1088/0960-1317/20/4/045026
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0960-1317
VL - 20
JO - Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
JF - Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
IS - 4
M1 - 045026
ER -