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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2002
Ingrid Fritsch, Fayetteville, AR (US);
Christopher S. Carter, Fort Smith, AR (US);
Zoraida P. Aguilar, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ingrid Fritsch, Fayetteville, AR (US);
Christopher S. Carter, Fort Smith, AR (US);
Zoraida P. Aguilar, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, N.A., Little Rock, AR (US);
Abstract
Microfluidic channels utilizing magnetohydrodynamics are used to pump very small volumes of solution. The channels have electrodes along the walls of the channel and a current carrying species within the solution carries the current through the solution. The electric field generated by the use of the current carrying species is perpendicular to a magnetic field applied to the channel. The combination of the electric and magnetic fields causes the solution to flow through the channel.