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Orbital Electrowetting: From Continuous Droplet Transport to Programmable Microfluidics. [PDF]

open access: yesAdv Mater
This work comprehensively summarizes the mechanisms, recent advances, potential applications, and key challenges of orbital electrowetting. It highlights that integrating orbital electrowetting with conventional electrowetting is required to enable complete digital‐microfluidic workflows while simplifying platform architecture.
Tan J   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Electrowetting Using a Microfluidic Kelvin Water Dropper

open access: yesMicromachines, 2018
The Kelvin water dropper is an electrostatic generator that can generate high voltage electricity through water dripping. A conventional Kelvin water dropper converts the gravitational potential energy of water into electricity.
Elias Yazdanshenas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling of Electrowetting-Induced Droplet Detachment and Jumping over Topographically Micro-Structured Surfaces

open access: yesMicromachines, 2021
Detachment and jumping of liquid droplets over solid surfaces under electrowetting actuation are of fundamental interest in many microfluidic and heat transfer applications.
Alexandros G. Sourais   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel Hexagonal Beam Steering Electrowetting Device for Solar Energy Concentration

open access: yesMicromachines, 2020
Traditional tracking devices for solar energy applications have several disadvantages, such as bulky mechanical structure, large wind loads, and ease of misalignment.
Iftekhar Khan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the electrowetting of silver‐based gas‐diffusion electrodes during oxygen reduction reaction with electrochemical and optical methods

open access: yesElectrochemical Science Advances, 2023
Porous gas‐diffusion electrodes (GDEs) are widely used in electrochemical applications where a gaseous reactant is converted to a target product. Important applications for silver‐based GDEs are the chlor‐alkali and the CO2 electrolysis processes in ...
Fabian Bienen   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electrowetting and Surface Tension of Chromonic Liquid Crystals

open access: yesCrystals, 2023
In this work, we report on measurements of the contact angle of sessile droplets of aqueous solutions of a chromonic liquid crystal at different temperatures and concentrations and on different hydrophobic surfaces, and we show that the wettability of ...
Filippo Marinello   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamics of Electrowetting Droplet Motion in Digital Microfluidics Systems: From Dynamic Saturation to Device Physics

open access: yesMicromachines, 2015
A quantitative description of the dynamics of droplet motion has been a long-standing concern in electrowetting research. Although many static and dynamic models focusing on droplet motion induced by electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) already exist ...
Weiwei Cui   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experimental study on the reliability of water/fluoropolymer/ITO contact in electrowetting displays

open access: yesResults in Physics, 2019
The practicability of using DI water in electrowetting displays with a thick layer of fluoropolymer and the reliability of water/fluoropolymer/indium tin oxide contact was investigated experimentally.
Rui Zhou   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fabrication and Actuation of an Electrowetting Droplet Array on a Flexible Substrate

open access: yesMicromachines, 2017
Electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) is a fast, well-established actuation method for a variety of applications, from microfluidics to electrowetting displays to electrowetting lenses. We therefore seek to develop a robust, scalable fabrication method for
Kari L. Van Grinsven   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Droplet-Based Microfluidic Thermal Management Methods for High Performance Electronic Devices

open access: yesMicromachines, 2019
Advanced thermal management methods have been the key issues for the rapid development of the electronic industry following Moore’s law. Droplet-based microfluidic cooling technologies are considered as promising solutions to conquer the major ...
Zhibin Yan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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