Microfluidics is a microtechnological field dealing with the precise transport of fluids (liquids or gases) in small amounts (e. g. microliters, nanoliters or even picoliters). This book gives a survey of microfluidics: biophysical, capillary forces, computational fluid dynamics, droplet formation, electroosmosis, electrophoresis, flow simulation, fluidic network simulation, heat transfer, inertia effects, jets, laminar flow, magnetic separation, mixing, multi-physics, particle flow, solid/fluid interaction, surface effects. Specific application of microfluidics is presented: electrokinetic flow, flow measurement and micro-PIV, acoustic sensing, electrokinetic bioanalytical systems, miniaturized capillary isoelectric focusing, and polymer based microfluidics, polymer dynamics in microfluidic systems.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zimmerman, W. B. J. , Preface. - Styring, P. , Introduction to Chemical Micro Reactors. - Styring, P. , Homogeneous Solution Chemistry in Chemical Micro Reactors. - Styring, P. , Heterogeneous Catalysis in Chemical Micro Reactors. - Styring, P. , Recent Advances in Chemistry in Micro Reactors. - Styring, P. , Soft Materials as Electromechanical Components in Chemical Micro Reactors. - MacInnes, J. M. , Modelling Pressure and Electrokinetic Flow in Complex Microfluidic Devices. - Hassell, D. , Zimmerman W. B. J. , Microchannel Fabrication. - Rees, J. M. , Zimmerman, W. B. J. , Rheometry of elektrokinetic flows in microchannels. - Bottausci, F. , Cardonne, C. , Mezic, I. , Meinhart, C. , An Actively Controlled Micromixer: 3-D Aspect. - Zimmerman, W. B. J. , Hewakandamby, B. N. , Enhancing mass transport in liquid-liquid microfluidic flows. - Zimmerman, W. B. J. , Modelling transport limited heterogeneous chemistry in microchannel reactors. - Lozano Parada, J. H. , Zimmerman, W. B. J. , The numerical simulation of a magnetohydrodynamic DC microdevise based on the finite element method. - Tesar, V. , Introductory notes on microfluidics. - Tesar, V. , Characterization of two terminal devices. - Tesar, V. , Fluidic circuits.