Open surface active and passive magnetic digital microfluidics

• Autores: Vahid Nasirimarekani
• Directores de la Tesis: Fernando Benito López (dir. tes.), Lourdes Basabe Desmonts (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea ( España ) en 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Aurora Hernández Machado (presid.), José Luis Vilas Vilela (secret.), Stephanie Descroix (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Análisis Forense por la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
• Materias:
  • Física
    • Electromagnetismo
      • Magnetismo
    • Física de fluidos
      • Mecánica de fluidos
      • Dinámica de fluidos magnéticos
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: ADDI
• Resumen

  • Liquids form the biggest portion of this world and our body. Life grows in liquids in tiny scales and the microfluidics field tries to offer methods to study liquids in a similar scale. We see water droplets on different surfaces everywhere, thus one of the general questions we face: is it possible to move or manipulate a water droplet on a surface in the direction we wish. This work targets this question, and asks about how to move water droplets on a surface with another liquid, a synthesized magnetic liquid, in a robust and controllable way. This work shows how we can control the interaction between two liquids in order to move water droplets in a programmable manner, on a surface. Moreover, it presents a novel approach to use this magnetic liquid for micro-structuring surfaces, will be used for passive manipulation of water droplets by altering their interaction with the surface.