A numerical and experimental study of acoustic micromixing in 3D microchannels for lab-on-a-chip devices

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug:2016:5660-5663. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7592011.

Abstract

This paper reports a numerical and experimental study of acoustic streaming and micromixing in polydimethylsiloxane microchannels. The mixing between two fluids flowing in microchannels was evaluated through the following conditions: (1) using a 28 μm thick β-poly(vinylidene fluoride) (β-PVDF) as a piezoelectric transducer actuated with a 24 Vpp and 40 MHz sinusoidal voltage; (2) using different flow rates. The results suggest that the mixing length increases as the flow rate increases and that the acoustic streaming phenomenon leads to a reduction on the mixing length. The good qualitative agreement between numerical and experimental results is a valuable indicator to predict the mixing performance of microfluidic devices, for improving biological fluid analysis in diagnosis lab-on-a-chip devices.

MeSH terms

  • Acoustics
  • Body Fluids / chemistry
  • Dimethylpolysiloxanes / chemistry
  • Lab-On-A-Chip Devices*
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / instrumentation
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / methods

Substances

  • Dimethylpolysiloxanes
  • baysilon