Universal motion of mirror-symmetric microparticles in confined Stokes flow [Applied Physical Sciences]

Comprehensive understanding of particle motion in microfluidic devices is essential to unlock additional technologies for shape-based separation and sorting of microparticles like microplastics, cells, and crystal polymorphs. Such particles interact hydrodynamically with confining surfaces, thus altering their trajectories. These hydrodynamic interactions are shape dependent and can be tuned to guide...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - September 7, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Rumen N. Georgiev, Sara O. Toscano, William E. Uspal, Bram Bet, Sela Samin, Rene van Roiȷ, Huseyin Burak Eral Tags: Physical Sciences Source Type: research