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Microfluidic device utilizing magnetohydrodynamics and method for fabrication thereof

US7467928B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas · US

Inventors

Eyitayo S. O. Fakunle · San Diego, US
Prabhu U. Arumugam · Ruston, US
Ingrid Fritsch · Fayetteville, US
Jeffrey Elbert Mincy · Fayetteville, US
Fred D. Barlow · Troy, US
Gangqiang Wang · Salt Lake City, US

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 11, 2006
Grant date	Dec 23, 2008
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 27, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T29/49236
WIPO fieldMicro-structural and nano-technology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Microfluidic channels utilizing magnetohydrodynamics are used to pump very small volumes of solution. The channels have electrodes along the walls and a current carrying species within a solution carries current through the solution. The combination of the electric and magnetic fields causes the solution to flow through the channel.

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