Sculpting Tailor-made Fluid Flows With Microfluidic Channels
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 12:40
in Physics & Chemistry
You have noticed the way water flows around boulders in a fast-moving river, creating areas of stillness and intense motion. It's possible to control the forces of fluid flow at the smallest levels by placing tiny pillars in microfluidic channels. By altering the speed of the fluid, and stacking many pillars, with different widths, placements and orientations, in the fluid's path, they showed that it is possible to create an impressive array of controlled flows. Why does this matter? read more