Active mixing of complex fluids at the microscale
Abstract
Mixing of complex fluids at low Reynolds number is fundamental for a broad range of applications, including materials assembly, microfluidics, and biomedical devices. Of these materials, yield stress fluids (and gels) pose the most significant challenges, especially when they must be mixed in low volumes over short timescales. New scaling relationships between mixer dimensions and operating conditions are derived and experimentally verified to create a framework for designing active microfluidic mixers that can efficiently homogenize a wide range of complex fluids. As a result, active mixing printheads are then designed and implemented for multimaterial 3D printing of viscoelastic inks with programmable control of local composition.
- Authors:
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- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1347981
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001293
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 112; Journal Issue: 40; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
- Publisher:
- National Academy of Sciences
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; microfluidic mixing; yield stress fluids; 3D printing; graded materials
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Ober, Thomas J., Foresti, Daniele, and Lewis, Jennifer A. Active mixing of complex fluids at the microscale. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1509224112.
Ober, Thomas J., Foresti, Daniele, & Lewis, Jennifer A. Active mixing of complex fluids at the microscale. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509224112
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"Active mixing of complex fluids at the microscale". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1509224112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1347981.
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title = {Active mixing of complex fluids at the microscale},
author = {Ober, Thomas J. and Foresti, Daniele and Lewis, Jennifer A.},
abstractNote = {Mixing of complex fluids at low Reynolds number is fundamental for a broad range of applications, including materials assembly, microfluidics, and biomedical devices. Of these materials, yield stress fluids (and gels) pose the most significant challenges, especially when they must be mixed in low volumes over short timescales. New scaling relationships between mixer dimensions and operating conditions are derived and experimentally verified to create a framework for designing active microfluidic mixers that can efficiently homogenize a wide range of complex fluids. As a result, active mixing printheads are then designed and implemented for multimaterial 3D printing of viscoelastic inks with programmable control of local composition.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1509224112},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 40,
volume = 112,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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