Issue 10, 2005

Electroosmotic flow analysis of a branched U-turn nanofluidic device

Abstract

In this paper, we present the analysis of electroosmotic flow in a branched U-turn nanofluidic device, which we developed for detection and sorting of single molecules. The device, where the channel depth is only 150 nm, is designed to optically detect fluorescence from a volume as small as 270 attolitres (al) with a common wide-field fluorescent setup. We use distilled water as the liquid, in which we dilute 110 nm fluorescent beads employed as tracer-particles. Quantitative imaging is used to characterize the pathlines and velocity distribution of the electroosmotic flow in the device. Due to the device's complex geometry, the electroosmotic flow cannot be solved analytically. Therefore we use numerical flow simulation to model our device. Our results show that the deviation between measured and simulated data can be explained by the measured Brownian motion of the tracer-particles, which was not incorporated in the simulation.

Graphical abstract: Electroosmotic flow analysis of a branched U-turn nanofluidic device

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Apr 2005
Accepted
20 Jun 2005
First published
18 Jul 2005

Lab Chip, 2005,5, 1067-1074

Electroosmotic flow analysis of a branched U-turn nanofluidic device

G. O. F. Parikesit, A. P. Markesteijn, V. G. Kutchoukov, O. Piciu, A. Bossche, J. Westerweel, Y. Garini and I. T. Young, Lab Chip, 2005, 5, 1067 DOI: 10.1039/B505493A

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