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Investigating Lateral Migration of a Falling Micro-Droplet on a Striped Surface

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Taylor, Dane Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Laramie, Wyoming
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2008-04-26

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Droplet actuation and manipulation is currently a major area of research in digital microfluidics, which has vast applications in the biomedical, self-assembly, opto-fluidic, and materials fields. This project presents a new phenomenon in micro-scale droplet motion by taking advantage of asymmetric contact line hysteresis. A surface with angled stripes of different wetting properties is used to influence lateral motion of a falling drop. Designing lateral droplet motion may be used to improve de-wetting through the promotion droplet mixing, and may also provide an alternative approach to droplet actuation in “lab on chip” devices. Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), simulations of a falling droplet on such a surface are being developed to test this phenomenon. note
From - Undergraduate Research Day 2008 - Celebration of Research - Abstracts
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Microfluidics; Hysteresis; Computational fluid dynamics

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