The kinesin-microtubule system plays an important role in intracellular transport and is a model system for integrating biomotor-driven transport into microengineered devices. AC electrokinetics provides a novel tool for manipulating and organizing microtubules in solution, enabling new experimental geometries for investigating and controlling the interactions of microtubules and microtubule mo...

We propose an edge averaged finite element (EAFE) discretization to solve the Heat-PNP (Poisson-Nernst-Planck) equations approximately. Our method enforces positivity of computed charged density functions and temperature function. Also thermodynamic consistent discrete energy estimate which resembles second law system is prescribed. Numerical examples are provided.

This paper proposes a novel method to form ion-selective nanochannel networks between two microfluidic channels using geometrically controlled in situ self-assembled nanoparticles. We present a thorough experimental and theoretical analysis of nanoscale electrokinetics using the proposed microplatform. The nano-interstices between these assembled nanoparticles serve as the nanopores of ion-sele...

The field of nonlinear “induced-charge” electrokinetics is rapidly advancing, motivated by potential applications in microfluidics as well as by the unique opportunities it provides for probing fundamental scientific issues in electrokinetics. Over the past few years, several surprising theoretical predictions have been observed in experiments: (i) induced-charge electrophoresis of half-metalli...