Active Microfluidic Micromixer Design using Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites

In most of the microfluidic applications, it is necessary to have a mixed fluid from the beginning, but in microchannels, due to facing with low Reynolds flows, the fluids flow in the channel by the laminar regimes. Hence the mixing process is a challenging problem and researchers are trying to present fast and reliable micromixers. In this paper, using Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites (IPMCs), an active micromixer has been designed. To investigate the appropriateness of IPMC, using experimental and simulation tests, we show that the IPMC actuator is a potential candidate as an active element of microfluidic micromixers.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  2019 27th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE)

• Publication date

  2019-04-01

• Fields of study

  Materials Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/IranianCEE.2019.8786743
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