Thermocapillary actuation of liquid plugs using a heater array

• Main Authors: Jiao, Zhenjun, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Huang, Xiaoyang
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Fluid mechanics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106157; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/23943; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2007.06.025
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the aim toward realizing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in plug-based capillary platforms, this paper reports the theoretical and experimental results of thermocapillary actuation for temperature cycling with an arbitrary ramping function. Two concepts were inves...