Flow-induced choking of a compliant Hele-Shaw cell.

ABSTRACT: After centuries of striving for structural rigidity, engineers and scientists alike are increasingly looking to harness the deformation, buckling, and failure of soft materials for functionality. In fluidic devices, soft deformable components that respond to the flow have the advantage of being passive; they do not require external actuation. Harnessing flow-induced deformation for passive functionality provides a means of developing flow analogs of electronic circuit components such as fluidic diodes and capacitors. The electronic component that has so far been overlooked in the microfluidics literature-the fuse-is a passive safety device that relies on a controlled failure mechanism (melting) to protect a circuit from overcurrent. Here, we describe how a compliant Hele-Shaw cell behaves

SUBMITTER: Box F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720111 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature