Modeling of electro-kinetic motion of Janus droplet
Date
2017Source Title
Proceedings of the ASME 2017 15th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, ICNMM 2017
Publisher
ASME
Pages
1 - 5
Language
English
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Abstract
Electro-kinetic manipulation Janus particles and droplets has attracted attention in recent years due to their potential application in microfluidics. Due to the presence of two different zone on the surface of particles with different charge distribution, the motion of the Janus particles are quite different than the that of regular particles. Therefore; the fundamental understanding of this motion is the key element for the further development of the microfluidic systems with Janus particles. In present study, electro-kinetic motion of Janus droplets inside a micro-channel is modeled using boundary element formulation. 2D formulation is verified against the reported experimental data in the literature. Results show that the 2D boundary element formulation is successful for the prediction of the electrophoretic velocity of the Janus droplets. The current formulation has a potential to model non-spherical particles and to study particle-particle and particle-wall interactions.
Keywords
DropsKinetics
Microchannels
Boundary element formulations
Electro-kinetic
Electrophoretic velocity
Janus particles
Key elements
Micro fluidic system
Nonspherical particle
Particle-wall interactions
Microfluidics