Microfluidic flow switching via localized acoustic streaming controlled by surface acoustic waves
Open Access
- 16 January 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in RSC Advances
- Vol. 8 (6) , 3206-3212
Abstract
Acoustic streaming flow induced by high-frequency surface acoustic waves has been used to switch streams of two immiscible fluids flowing in parallel through a bifurcating microchannel with an H-shaped junction at the centre.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Research Foundation of Korea (2017-013369)
- Korea Polar Research Institute
- KU-KAIST Institute
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