Book description
The Physics of Microdroplets gives the reader the theoretical and numerical tools to understand, explain, calculate, and predict the often nonintuitive observed behavior of droplets in microsystems.
Microdrops and interfaces are now a common feature in most fluidic microsystems, from biology, to biotechnology, materials science, 3D-microelectronics, optofluidics, and mechatronics. On the other hand, the behavior of droplets and interfaces in today's microsystems is complicated and involves complex 3D geometrical considerations. From a numerical standpoint, the treatment of interfaces separating different immiscible phases is difficult.
After a chapter dedicated to the general theory of wetting, this practical book successively details:
The theory of 3D liquid interfaces
The formulas for volume and surface of sessile and pancake droplets
The behavior of sessile droplets
The behavior of droplets between tapered plates and in wedges
The behavior of droplets in microchannels
The effect of capillarity with the analysis of capillary rise
The onset of spontaneous capillary flow in open microfluidic systems
The interaction between droplets, like engulfment
The theory and application of electrowetting
The state of the art for the approach of 3D-microelectronics using capillary alignment
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Capillarity
- Chapter 2: Minimal Energy and Stability Rubrics
- Chapter 3: Droplets: Shape, Surface and Volume
- Chapter 4: Sessile Droplets
- Chapter 5: Droplets Between Two Non-parallel Planes: From Tapered Planes to Wedges
- Chapter 6: Microdrops in Microchannels and Microchambers
- Chapter 7: Capillary Effects: Capillary Rise, Capillary Pumping, and Capillary Valve
- Chapter 8: Open Microfluidics
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Chapter 9: Droplets, Particles and Interfaces
- 9.1 Abstract
- 9.2 Neumann’s Construction for Liquid Droplets
- 9.3 The Difference Between Liquid Droplets and Rigid Spheres at an Interface
- 9.4 Liquid Droplet Deposited at a Liquid Surface
- 9.5 Immiscible Droplets in Contact and Engulfment
- 9.6 Non-deformable (Rigid) Sphere at an Interface
- 9.7 Droplet Evaporation and Capillary Assembly
- 9.8 Conclusion
- 9.9 References
- Chapter 10: Digital Microfluidics
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Chapter 11: Capillary Self-assembly for 3D Microelectronics
- 11.1 Abstract
- 11.2 Ideal Case: Total Pinning on the Chip and Pad Edges
- 11.3 Real Case: Spreading and Wetting
- 11.4 The Importance of Pinning and Confinement
- 11.5 Conclusion
- 11.6 Appendix A: Shift Energy and Restoring Force
- 11.7 Appendix B: Twist Energy and Restoring Torque
- 11.8 Appendix C: Lift Energy and Restoring Force
- 11.9 References
- Chapter 12: Epilogue
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Physics of Microdroplets
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2012
- Publisher(s): Wiley-Scrivener
- ISBN: 9780470938805
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