Open Surface Active and Pasive Magnetic Digital Microfluidics
- Doctoral student:
- Vahid Nasirimarekani
- Year:
- 2021
- University:
- University of the Basque Country
- Director(s):
- Assoc. Prof. Fernando Benito López & Prof. Lourdes Basabe Desmonts
- Description:
Liquids form the biggest portion of this world and our body. Life grows in liquids
in tiny scales and the microfluidics field tries to offer methods to study liquids
in a similar scale. We see water droplets on different surfaces everywhere,
thus one of the general questions we face: is it possible to move or manipulate
a water droplet on a surface in the direction we wish.
This work targets this question, and asks about how to move water droplets on
a surface with another liquid, a synthesized magnetic liquid, in a robust and
controllable way. This work shows how we can control the interaction between
two liquids in order to move water droplets in a programmable manner, on
a surface. Moreover, it presents a novel approach to use this magnetic liquid
for micro-structuring surfaces, will be used for passive manipulation of water
droplets by altering their interaction with the surface.
- Mention:
- International PhD