2018/07/30 by Prashant Agrawal, Prasoon Kumar, Prasanna S Gandhi +2
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Capillary action #Composite material #Current (fluid) #Electrical engineering #Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies #Engineering #Fabrication #Fluidics #Materials science #Mechanical engineering #Mechanics #Microelectronics #Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies #Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications #Microfluidics #Micropump #Nanotechnology #Optoelectronics #Volumetric flow rate #physics.app-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.12.031002
published as Phys. Rev. Applied 12, 031002 (2019) · 19 pages including 6 figures and 1 table. The The work was presented as an oral presentation in the National conference on Convergence of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biomedical technology, 2018, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmadabad, India ( 26th March - 28th March, 2018)
arxiv created 2018/07/30 · openalex publication_date 2019/09/20 · arxiv updated 2019/09/25 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The micropump is an integral part of any microfluidic system, for applications in diagnostics, bioengineering, drug delivery, and lab-on-chip devices. Plant leaves provide natural inspiration for designing evaporation-based passive micropumps, but development of such bioinspired pumps is limited by fabrication challenges plus a lack of understanding of the details of pumping in leaves. This study uses a simple yet scalable method to fabricate a leaf-mimicking structure from readily available materials. A model of the pumping mechanism corroborates experiment well, yielding a better understanding of the design parameters affecting the performance of the leaf-mimicking device.