TY - GEN
T1 - Anti-fouling surfaces featured with magnetic artificial cilia
AU - Zhang, Shuaizhong
AU - Wang, Ye
AU - Onck, Patrick R.
AU - den Toonder, Jaap M.J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is financially supported by the China Scholarship Council.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 CBMS-0001.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The fouling of surfaces submerged in a liquid is a serious problem for many applications including lab-on-a-chip devices. Inspired by the versatility of cilia on manipulating fluids and particles, we experimentally demonstrate for the first time that surfaces covered with magnetic artificial cilia (MAC) have the capacity to efficiently prevent the attachment and adhesion of real biofouling agents microalgae Scenedesmus sp., i.e. the ciliated surfaces are antifouling. Actuated by a rotating magnet, the MAC can perform a tilted conical motion, which leads to the removal of the algae away from the ciliated area, creating a clean area.
AB - The fouling of surfaces submerged in a liquid is a serious problem for many applications including lab-on-a-chip devices. Inspired by the versatility of cilia on manipulating fluids and particles, we experimentally demonstrate for the first time that surfaces covered with magnetic artificial cilia (MAC) have the capacity to efficiently prevent the attachment and adhesion of real biofouling agents microalgae Scenedesmus sp., i.e. the ciliated surfaces are antifouling. Actuated by a rotating magnet, the MAC can perform a tilted conical motion, which leads to the removal of the algae away from the ciliated area, creating a clean area.
KW - Algae
KW - Antifouling
KW - Magnetic Artificial Cilia
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094977362
T3 - 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019
SP - 233
EP - 234
BT - 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019
PB - Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019
Y2 - 27 October 2019 through 31 October 2019
ER -