Dissemin is shutting down on January 1st, 2025

Published in

Royal Society of Chemistry, Lab on a Chip, 18(9), p. 2738

DOI: 10.1039/b903687c

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

A millisecond micromixer via single-bubble-based acoustic streaming

Journal article published in 2009 by Daniel Ahmed, Xiaole Mao, Jinjie Shi, Bala Krishna Juluri, Tony Jun Huang ORCID
This paper is available in a repository.
This paper is available in a repository.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Orange circle
Postprint: archiving restricted
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

We present ultra-fast homogeneous mixing inside a microfluidic channel via single-bubble-based acoustic streaming. The device operates by trapping an air bubble within a "horse-shoe" structure located between two laminar flows inside a microchannel. Acoustic waves excite the trapped air bubble at its resonance frequency, resulting in acoustic streaming, which disrupts the laminar flows and triggers the two fluids to mix. Due to this technique's simple design, excellent mixing performance, and fast mixing speed (a few milliseconds), our single-bubble-based acoustic micromixer may prove useful for many biochemical studies and applications.