Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Author
1 Basics of Interfacial Electrokinetics
1.1 Electrical Double Layer
1.1.1 Electrical Field in a Dielectric Medium
1.1.2 Origin of Surface Charge
1.1.3 Electrical Double Layer (EDL)
1.1.4 Boltzmann Distribution
1.1.5 Theoretical Model and Analysis of EDL
1.1.6 EDL Field Near a Flat Surface
1.1.7 EDL Field Around a Spherical Surface
1.1.8 EDL Field Around a Cylinder
1.1.9 Concentration and pH Dependence of Surface Charge and Zeta Potential
1.2 Electroosmotic Flows in Microchannels

1.2.1 Electroosmotic Flow Velocity
1.2.2 Electroosmotic Flow in a Slit Microchannel
1.2.3 Electroosmotic Flow in a Cylindrical Microchannel
1.3 Introduction to Electrophoresis
References
2 Induced Charge Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena
2.1 Basics of Induced Charge Electrokinetics
2.2 Induced Charge Electroosmotic Flow [3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11]
2.2.1 Flow Field with Vortices in the Converging-Diverging Section
2.2.2 Regulating Flow
2.3 Flow Mixing by Induced Charge Electroosmotic Flow
2.4 Induced Charge Electrokinetic Motion of Fully Polarizable Particles

2.4.1 Electric Field
2.4.2 Flow Field
2.4.3 Particle Motion
2.4.4 Transient Motion of Conducting Particles Along the Center of a Microchannel
2.4.5 Wall Effects on Induced Charge Electrokinetic Motion of Conducting Particles
2.4.6 Particle Focusing in a Microchannel
2.4.7 Particle Separation by Density
2.5 Induced Charge Particle-Particle Interactions
2.6 Polarizability Dependence of Electrokinetic Motion of Dielectric Particles
2.6.1 Polarization of Dielectrics
2.6.2 The Induced Surface Potential and Electroosmotic Flow

2.6.3 Interaction of Two Dielectric Particles Due to Induced Charge EOF
References
3 DC-Dielectrophoresis in Microfluidic Chips
3.1 Basics of Dielectrophoresis
3.2 DC-DEP Separation of Micro-particles and Cells
3.3 DEP Produced by Asymmetric Orifices on Sidewalls of Microchannel
3.3.1 DC-DEP Separation of Micro-particles By Size
3.3.2 DC-DEP Separation of Nano-particles By Size
3.3.3 DC-DEP Separation of Nano-particles By Type
3.3.4 AC-DEP Separation of Biological Cells
References
4 Electroosmotic Flow and Electrophoresis in Nanochannels

4.1 Difference and Challenge
4.2 Single Nanochannel Fabrication by Nano-crack Method
4.2.1 Effect of Reagents
4.2.2 Effects of Alcohol Volume and Heating Time
4.2.3 Concentration Effects and the Role of Water
4.2.4 Temperature Effects
4.2.5 Number of Nano-cracks
4.2.6 Controlling the Locations of the Nano-cracks
4.2.7 How to Transfer the Pattern of a Nano-crack into a Positive Nanochannel Mold
4.2.8 Effects of Photoresist Type (Solvent Content)
4.2.9 Effects of Spin-Coating Time
4.2.10 Effects of UV Exposure Dose
4.2.11 Thickness of the Photoresist Layer