Sciambi Adam, Abate Adam R
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Lab Chip. 2014 Aug 7;14(15):2605-9. doi: 10.1039/c4lc00078a. Epub 2014 Mar 27.
Droplet merging and sorting in microfluidic devices usually rely on electric fields generated by solid metal electrodes. We show that simpler and more reliable salt water electrodes, despite their lower conductivity, can perform the same droplet manipulations at the same voltages.
微流控设备中的液滴合并和分选通常依赖于固体金属电极产生的电场。我们表明,尽管盐水电极的导电性较低,但更简单、更可靠的盐水电极在相同电压下可以进行相同的液滴操作。