The electrokinetic effect in a fluid-saturated porous rock is defined as the coupling and conversion between seismic and electric energies. When seismic waves propagate through a fluid-saturated formation and cause a pore fluid-flow relative to the solid matrix, the motion of the cations in the fluidflow forms a streaming electrical current and induces an electromagnetic wave at any discontinuo...

We show that when particles are suspended in an electrolyte confined between corrugated charged surfaces, electrokinetic flows lead to a new set of phenomena such as particle separation, mixing for low-Reynolds micro- and nanometric devices, and negative mobility. Our analysis shows that such phenomena arise, for incompressible fluids, due to the interplay between the electrostatic double layer...

Hydrodynamic behavior at the vicinity of a confining wall is closely related to the friction properties of the liquid/solid interface. Here we consider, using molecular dynamics simulations, the electric contribution to friction for charged surfaces, and the induced modification of the hydrodynamic boundary condition at the confining boundary. The consequences of liquid slippage for electrokine...

A review is given on recent studies of charged colloidal suspensions and polyelectrolytes both in static and non-equilibrium situations. As far as static equilibrium situations are concerned, we discuss three different problems: 1) Sedimentation density profiles in charged suspensions are shown to exhibit a stretched non-bariometric wing at large heights and binary suspensions under gravity can...

Microfluidicsand nanofluidics-based impedance sensors play an important role in identification of toxic industrial chemicals and pathogens in biodetection and biodefense arena. However, their efficient modeling and design continues to be a challenge. This paper presents high-fidelity models to resolve the electrokinetic transport process at the microand nano-scale and capture the critical effec...

In this study, the high-resolution ultrasonic spectroscopy (HR-US) technique was applied to examine interpolyelectrolyte neutralization. The mentioned method tested on example of complexation between poly(allylammonium) cations and poly(acrylate) anions in aqueous solutions at pH = 7. It confirmed by HR-US that type titration (stepwise or abrupt), direction titration, background salt affect out...

Overall, investigations about the utilization of electrokinetic technology alone or in combination with other processes have attracted particular attention recent years for remediation soils contaminated heavy metals and organic compounds. This fact is due to its peculiar benefits together capability operating a fine low-permeability matrix. review aimed ascertain most developments on commonly ...