Micromixers
Fundamentals, Design and Fabrication
- 2nd Edition - September 17, 2011
- Author: Nam-Trung Nguyen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 3 5 2 0 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 3 5 2 1 - 5
The ability to mix minute quantities of fluids is critical in a range of recent and emerging techniques in engineering, chemistry and life sciences, with applications as diverse as… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe ability to mix minute quantities of fluids is critical in a range of recent and emerging techniques in engineering, chemistry and life sciences, with applications as diverse as inkjet printing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, specialty and hazardous chemical manufacturing, DNA analysis and disease diagnosis.The multidisciplinary nature of this field – intersecting engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, microtechnology and biotechnology – means that the community of engineers and scientists now engaged in developing microfluidic devices has entered the field from a variety of different backgrounds.Micromixers is uniquely comprehensive, in that it deals not only with the problems that are directly related to fluidics as a discipline (aspects such as mass transport, molecular diffusion, electrokinetic phenomena, flow instabilities, etc.) but also with the practical issues of fabricating micomixers and building them into microsystems and lab-on-chip assemblies.With practical applications to the design of systems vital in modern communications, medicine and industry this book has already established itself as a key reference in an emerging and important field.The 2e includes coverage of a broader range of fabrication techniques, additional examples of fully realized devices for each type of micromixer and a substantially extended section on industrial applications, including recent and emerging applications.
- Introduces the design and applications of micromixers for a broad audience across chemical engineering, electronics and the life sciences, and applications as diverse as lab-on-a-chip, ink jet printing, pharmaceutical manufacturing and DNA analysis
- Helps engineers and scientists to unlock the potential of micromixers by explaining both the scientific (microfluidics) aspects and the engineering involved in building and using successful microscale systems and devices with micromixers
- The author's applied approach combines experience-based discussion of the challenges and pitfalls of using micromixers, with proposals for how to overcome them
Engineers in the chemical and biomedical industries (chemical engineers, electronic engineers, mechanical engineers, chemists, biotechnologists, biomedical engineers and clinical technicians); Scientists involved in analytical applications of microfluidics in the life scientists and chemistry; Researchers and graduate students
Micro & Nano Technologies SeriesPreface for the second editionSymbols1. Introduction1.1. Micromixers and Mixing in Microscale1.2. Micromixers as Microreactors1.3. Organization of the Book2. Fundamentals of mass transport in the microscale2.1. Transport Phenomena2.2. Molecular Diffusion2.3. Taylor Dispersion2.4. Chaotic Advection2.5. Viscoelastic effects2.6. Electrokinetic Effects2.7. Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects2.8. Scaling Law and Fluid Flow in Microscale3. Computational transport processes for micromixers3.1. Introduction3.2. Problem Description3.3. Mathematical Formulation3.4. Solution Procedure3.5. Verifications and Validations3.6. Examples3.7. Concluding Remarks4. Fabrication technologies4.1. Silicon-Based Microtechnologies4.2. Polymeric Microtechnologies4.3. Metallic Microtechnologies4.4. Packaging4.5. Conclusions5. Micromixers based on molecular diffusion5.1. Parallel Lamination5.2. Sequential Lamination5.3. Sequential Segmentation5.4. Segmentation Based on Injection5.5. Focusing of Mixing Streams5.6. Gradient Generator Based on Diffusive Mixing6. Micromixers based on chaotic advection6.1. Chaotic Advection at High Reynolds Numbers6.2. Chaotic Advection at Intermediate Reynolds Numbers6.3. Chaotic Advection at Low Reynolds Numbers6.4. Chaotic Advection in Multiphase Flow7. Active micromixers7.1. Flow Instability in Microchannels7.2. Pressure-driven Disturbance7.3. Electrohydrodynamic Disturbance7.4. Dielectrophoretic Disturbance7.5. Electrokinetic Disturbance7.6. Magnetohydrodynamic Disturbance7.7. Acoustic Disturbance7.8. Thermal Disturbance8. Characterization techniques8.1. Imaging Techniques8.2. Measurement Using Optical Microscopy8.3. Quantification Methods for Micromixers9. Application of micromixers9.1. Chemical Industry9.2. Applications in Chemical and Biochemical Analysis9.3. OutlookIndex
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: September 17, 2011
- Imprint: William Andrew
- Hardback ISBN: 9781437735208
- eBook ISBN: 9781437735215
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Nam-Trung Nguyen
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Nanyang Technological University (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), SingaporeRead Micromixers on ScienceDirect