Document Type
Patent
Publication Date
5-11-2004
Abstract
Microfluidic channels utilizing magnetohydrodynamics are used to pump very small volumes of solution. The channels have electrodes along the walls of the channel, and a current carrying species within the solution carries the current through the solution. The electric field generated by the use of the current carrying species is perpendicular to a magnetic field applied to the channel. The combination of the electric and magnetic fields causes the solution to flow through the channel.
Department
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Patent Number
US6733244
Application Filed
12-19-2001
Assignee
University of Arkansas (Little Rock, AR)
Citation
Fritsch, I., Carter, C. S., & Aguilar, Z. P. (2004). Microfluidics and small volume mixing based on redox magnetohydrodynamics methods. Patents Granted. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/pat/138
Comments
Ingrid Fritsch, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Zoraida P. Aguilar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR