Document Type

Patent

Publication Date

12-23-2008

Abstract

Microfluidic channels utilizing magnetohydrodynamics are used to pump very small volumes of solution. The channels have electrodes along the walls and a current carrying species within a solution carries current through the solution. The combination of the electric and magnetic fields causes the solution to flow through the channel.

Department

Chemistry & Biochemistry; Electrical Engineering

Patent Number

US7467928

Application Number

US20070086898

Application Published

4-19-2007

Application Filed

12-11-2006

Assignee

Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas (Little Rock, AR)

Comments

Eyitayo S. O. Fakunle, Cell and Molecular Biology Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Prabhu U. Arumugam, Microelectronics-Photonics Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Ingrid Fritsch, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Jeffrey Elbert Mincy, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Fred D. Barlow, III, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Gangqiang Wang, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

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