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Electrically tunable superhydrophobic nanostructured surfaces

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Electrically tunable superhydrophobic nanostructured surfaces
We demonstrate effective mixing of microliter droplets using electrically tunable superhydrophobic nanostructured surfaces. By applying electrical voltage and current, droplets can be reversibly switched from a wetting to a non-wetting state, which induces fluid motion within the droplet. This mixing concept was verified using a DNA hybridization assay, in which a single droplet reversibility accelerated the hybridization reaction by an order of magnitude as compared to mixing by passive diffusion. This work offers a new method to effectively mix droplets for a variety of microfluidics applications. Keywords Droplet mixing
Tom Krupenkin, J. Ashley Taylor, Paul Kolodner, Ma
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Type Journal
Year 2005
Where BELL
Authors Tom Krupenkin, J. Ashley Taylor, Paul Kolodner, Marc Hodes
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