Dean flow-coupled inertial focusing for ultra-high-throughput particle filtration

• Particle manipulation represents an important and fundamental step prior to counting, sorting and detecting bio-particles. In this study, we report dean-coupled inertial focusing of particles in flows through a single curve microchannel at extremely high channel Reynold numbers (∼325). We found the lateral particle focusing position, xf to be fixed and largely independent of radius of curvature and whether particles are pre-focused (at equilibrium) entering the curvature or randomly distributed. Finally, using a single inlet, u-shaped, microchannel we demonstrate filtration of 10μm particles from 2 μm particles at throughputs several orders of magnitude higher than previously shown.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Dean flow

Filtration

Inertial focusing

Micro separation

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