Analytical results for the velocity distribution, mass flow rate, pressure gradient, wall shear stress, and vorticity in mixed electroosmotic/pressure driven flows are presented for two-dimensional straight channel geometry. We particularly analyze the electric double-layer (EDL) region near the walls and define three new concepts based on the electroosmotic potential distribution. These are th...

In electroosmotic dehumidification, a membrane composed of a desiccant material removes moisture from air to be conditioned. Then, electroosmotic pumping driven by the application of voltage moves the moisture across the membrane and rejects it on the other side. A bench top experiment was developed to screen promising membrane materials. Two sealed humidity chambers were separated by a membran...

The members of the Committee appointed to examine the thesis of MIAO MIAO find it satisfactory and recommend that it be accepted. ___________________________________ Chair ___________________________________ ___________________________________ iii ACKNOLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Prashanta Dutta for the research guidance, patience and understanding during the past four years....

This paper investigates the operational factors that affect an integrated electrochemical remediation (IECR) process for the degradation and removal of both organic and heavy metal contaminants in low permeability soils. IECR aims to degrade the organic contaminants through chemical oxidation process and at the same time remove the heavy metals through electromigration. Hydrogen peroxide is use...

S. Devasenathipathy and J.G. Santiago The advent of microfabricated chemical analysis systems has led to a growing interest in microfabricated fluidic systems with characteristic scales in the range of a micron to a millimeter. A motivation to integrate components in a manner analogous to modern microelectronics is coupled with a potential for achieving massively parallel functions, and the fie...

A 330-pL chromatographic bed was fabricated on a glass substrate as part of an electroosmotically pumped microfluidic system. Two weirs within a sample channel formed a cavity in which octadecylsilane (ODS) coated silica beads (1.5-4 microns diameter) were trapped. ODS beads were mobilized into and out of the cavity using electroosmotic flow through a bead-introduction channel which accessed th...

Sample pre-concentration can be a critical element to improve sensitivity of integrated microchip assays. In this work a converging Y-inlet microfluidic channel with integrated coplanar electrodes was used to investigate transverse DNA and protein migration under uniform direct current (DC) electric fields to assess the ability to concentrate a sample prior to other enzymatic modifications or c...

This note provides a few comments on the conditions required for similitude between velocity and electric field in electroosmotic flows. The velocity fields of certain electroosmotic flows with relatively thin electric double layers (EDLs) are known to be irrotational in regions outside of the EDL. Under restricted conditions, the velocity field, V , can be expressed in terms of the electric fi...

The field of soft robots would benefit from electrically controlled contractile actuators in the form of fibers that achieve a strain of 20% in less than a second while exerting high force. This work explores possible designs for achieving this goal using self-contained electroosmotic fluid pumping within a tube-shaped structure. The most promising configuration is a combination of a bellows an...