Design and Analysis of a Chaotic Micromixer with Vortices Modulation
Abstract
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A novel design for vortex modulation of a passive chaotic micromixer, named a circulation-disturbance micromixer (CDM), has been achieved and analyzed experimentally and numerically. The systematic numerical analyses - topological flow characteristics and particle tracking method - have been developed, that enable visualization of detailed mixing patterns. To display the cross section of mixing region of flows in our CDM, the biotin-streptavidin binding is detected through the fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) pair of fluorescent proteins - R-phycoerythrin (RPE) and cross-linked allophycocyanin (clAPC). We expect the diagnosis technique using FRET will be successfully applied to biochemical analysis in microfluidic system.
Submitted on behalf of EDA Publishing Association (http://irevues.inist.fr/handle/2042/16838)
Submitted on behalf of EDA Publishing Association (http://irevues.inist.fr/handle/2042/16838)