Role of Magnus effect in cell separation using dielectrophoresis
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چکیده
The dielectrophoretic cell separation and the underlying electro-hydrodynamics is studied in the light of a single biological particle in a simplified geometry of electrodes. We propose and test a hypothesis related to the electro-rotation and preferential motion of cells observed in experiments. This work investigates the scaling of the forces and displacements to test the hypothesis and attempts a theoretical explanation of rotational motion. The phenomena of electro-rotation observed in experiments and bio-medical devices have been only used to answer how the rotation occurs. We present a scaling analysis of the electro-rotation and explore its influence on the trajectory in a simplified domain.
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