Conveyor-belt method for assembling microparticles into large-scale structures using electric fields

Anil Kumar; Andreas Acrivos; Boris Khusid; Conrad D. James; David Jacqmin

doi:10.1063/1.2721238

Conveyor-belt method for assembling microparticles into large-scale structures using electric fields

Anil Kumar, Andreas Acrivos, Boris Khusid, Conrad D. James, David Jacqmin

Chemical and Materials Engineering

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The authors propose and experimentally demonstrate a conveyor-belt method appropriate for building large-scale microparticle structures by sequentially energizing electrodes to aggregate the particles into predetermined locations and then to translate them collectively to a work area for final assembly. This approach employs collective phenomena in a negatively polarized suspension exposed to a high-gradient strong ac electric field.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	154104
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	90
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2721238
State	Published - 2007

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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