{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Ertsgaard CT"],"funding":["NSF | Directorate for Engineering"],"pagination":["1869"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8987052"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["13(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Open-channel microfluidics enables precise positioning and confinement of liquid volume to interface with tightly integrated optics, sensors, and circuit elements. Active actuation via electric fields can offer a reduced footprint compared to passive microfluidic ensembles and removes the burden of intricate mechanical assembly of enclosed systems. Typical systems actuate via manipulating surface wettability (i.e., electrowetting), which can render low-voltage but forfeits open-microchannel confinement. The dielectric polarization force is an alternative which can generate open liquid microchannels (sub-100 µm) but requires large operating voltages (50-200 V<sub>RMS</sub>) and low conductivity solutions. Here we show actuation of microchannels as narrow as 1 µm using voltages as low as 0.5"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Open-channel microfluidics via resonant wireless power transfer."],"pmcid":["PMC8987052"],"funding_grant_id":["ECCS 1610333"],"pubmed_authors":["Oh SH","Yoo D","Christenson PR","Ertsgaard CT","Klemme DJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Open-channel microfluidics via resonant wireless power transfer.","description":"Open-channel microfluidics enables precise positioning and confinement of liquid volume to interface with tightly integrated optics, sensors, and circuit elements. Active actuation via electric fields can offer a reduced footprint compared to passive microfluidic ensembles and removes the burden of intricate mechanical assembly of enclosed systems. Typical systems actuate via manipulating surface wettability (i.e., electrowetting), which can render low-voltage but forfeits open-microchannel confinement. The dielectric polarization force is an alternative which can generate open liquid microchannels (sub-100 µm) but requires large operating voltages (50-200 V<sub>RMS</sub>) and low conductivity solutions. Here we show actuation of microchannels as narrow as 1 µm using voltages as low as 0.5","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Apr","modification":"2025-04-19T13:01:34.48Z","creation":"2025-04-19T13:01:34.48Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8987052","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35387995"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-022-29405-2"]}}