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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Electrokinetic phenomena"”.
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Electrokinetic phenomena in nanopore transport
… of single molecule sensing. Additionally, the phenomena we have uncovered could potentially be harnessed in novel microfluidic applications, whose technological implications range from lab-on-a-chip devices to personalised medicine.
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High fidelity simulations of electrokinetic phenomena in microfluidic devices
<p>Electroosmotic flow with electrokinetic effects is the primary method of fluid handling in micro-total analysis systems. Under external applied electric fields, electrokinetic micro-devices allow for innovative functionality in a wide range of microfluidic applications including sample …
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Electrokinetic Phenomena in Colloidal Systems: Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Electrophoresis and Diffusiophoresis
… and reaction engineering. In this regard, electrokinetic phenomena such as electrophoresis (EP) and diffusiophoresis (DP) have been widely adopted. EP involves the motion of particles or droplets under the influence of an external electric field, whereas DP refers to the spontaneous motion …
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Beyond Poisson-Boltzmann : strong correlations and extreme confinement in ionic fluids
… fundamental consequences for ion transport and electrokinetic phenomena.
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A study of electrochemical transport and diffuse charge dynamics using a Langevin equation
… at small scales. Previous efforts at modeling electrokinetic phenomena at scales where the noncontinuum effects become significant have included continuum models based on the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations and atomic simulations using molecular dynamics algorithms. Neither of them is easy to …
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Electric Field Effects on Bacterial Deposition and Contaminant Sorption as Drivers of Bioavailability
… Direct current (DC) electric fields and their electrokinetic phenomena (electro-migration, electroosmosis, and electrophoresis) have the potential to promote contaminant bioavailability by both mobilizing bacteria and contaminants. This thesis hence tested electrokinetic factors affecting …
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A study of electrochemical transport and diffuse charge dynamics in nanoscale devices using a Langevin equation
… at small scales. Previous efforts at modeling electrokinetic phenomena at scales where non-continuum effects become significant have included continuum models based on the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations and atomic simulations using molecular dynamics algorithms. Neither of them is easy to use …
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Collective behavior of colloidal suspensions under electric fields and confinement
Electrokinetic phenomena have been widely used in microfluidic devices as a means of manipulating fluids and particles. As a main area of interest in the present study, particle dynamics driven by electrokinetic phenomena in Stokes flow are investigated using theory and numerical simulations. In …
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Dynamics of single semiflexible filaments in a viscous fluid
… potentially extended to include interactions and electrokinetic phenomena that may then lead to solving problems in applications like DNA electrophoresis and polymer translocation through pores.
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Membranes for sustainable heat-to-electricity conversion
… the fundamentals of nanofluidic ion transport, electrokinetic phenomena, and state-of-the-art ionic thermoelectric (i-TE) materials. It highlights how fixed surface charge density on membrane walls and electrolyte confinement enable selective ion transport and enhanced ionic Seebeck coefficient. …