A scalable active micro-mixer for biomedical applications

作者：Cortelezzi Luca^*; Ferrari Simone; Dubini Gabriele

来源：Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2017, 21(3): 31.

DOI：10.1007/s10404-017-1868-9

• Microfluidic mixing
• Active micro-mixer
• Scalable micro-mixer

We present a geometrically scalable active micro-mixer suitable for biomedical and bioengineering applications and potentially assimilable in a lab-on-chip. Our micro-mixer is able to process volumes of fluid in the range of 10(-6)-10(-9) l; its actuation system induces fast mixing; its constructive simplicity facilitates its realizability, assimilability and reusability; it is geometrically scalable and, therefore, assimilable to microfluidic systems of different dimensions. We characterize the mixing performance of our micro-mixer in terms of Reynolds, Strouhal and Pclet numbers in order to establish a practical range of operating conditions for our micro-mixer. Finally, we demonstrate the geometrical scalability of our micro-mixer.

• 出版日期2017-3