Issue 18, 2019

A wearable electrofluidic actuation system

Abstract

We report a wearable electrofluidic actuation system, which exploits the alternating current electrothermal (ACET) effects to engineer biofluid flow profiles on the body. The wearable ACET flow is induced with the aid of corrosion-resistant electrode configurations (fabricated on a flexible substrate) and custom-developed, wirelessly programmable high frequency (MHz) excitation circuitry. Various tunable flow profiles are demonstrated with the aid of the devised flexible ACET electrode configurations, where the induced profiles are in agreement with the ACET theory and simulation. The demonstrated capabilities rendered by the presented system create new degrees of freedom for implementing advanced bioanalytical operations for future lab-on-the-body platforms.

Graphical abstract: A wearable electrofluidic actuation system

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 may 2019
Accepted
27 iyl 2019
First published
29 iyl 2019

Lab Chip, 2019,19, 2966-2972

Author version available

A wearable electrofluidic actuation system

H. Lin, H. Hojaiji, S. Lin, C. Yeung, Y. Zhao, B. Wang, M. Malige, Y. Wang, K. King, W. Yu, J. Tan, Z. Wang, X. Cheng and S. Emaminejad, Lab Chip, 2019, 19, 2966 DOI: 10.1039/C9LC00454H

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