Instability-Induced Mixing of Ferrofluids in Uniform Magnetic Fields

• Main Authors: Wang, Xinghua, Wang, Zhaomeng, Varma, Vijaykumar B., Wang, Zhiping, Ray, Ayan, Lew, Wen S., Ramanujan, Raju V.
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: micro-magnetofluidics; ferrofluid instability; uniform magnetic fields; LoC mixing; Magnetochemistry; Microfluidics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84118; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41621
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The advantages of ferrofluids in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip applications include remote control of the fluid flow within the chips, e.g., mixing of the species using an external uniform magnetic field. Hence, three-stream flow systems, consisting of a ferrofluid core clad by two streams of diamagnet...