TY - GEN
T1 - Anti-fouling surfaces
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
AU - Zhang, Shuaizhong
AU - Wang, Ye
AU - Onck, Patrick R.
AU - Den Toonder, Jaap M.J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Shuaizhong Zhang is financially supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council. We would like to thank Erwin Dekkers, Luciano Oorthuizen and Roel Brouwers for constructing the magnetic actuation setup.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © (2018) by Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society. All rights reserved.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Biological cilia are hair-like structures lining many biological surfaces. There are many examples in nature in which oscillating cilia efficiently manipulate particles in their vicinity, e.g. for feeding, antifouling or cell transport. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate that surfaces covered with artificial cilia have the capacity to remove micro-particles from the ciliated area, creating a particle-free area. The artificial cilia used are micro-moulded magnetic artificial cilia (MAC), actuated externally by a homebuilt magnetic setup. The ciliated surface is capable of removing a large size range of particles except for particles which have a diameter that is similar to the cilia pitch. It is also able to remove irregular-shaped sand particles in both water and air. These findings can contribute to the development of novel particle manipulation and self-cleaning/antifouling surfaces, which can find application in, for example, lab-on-a-chip devices and marine antifouling.
AB - Biological cilia are hair-like structures lining many biological surfaces. There are many examples in nature in which oscillating cilia efficiently manipulate particles in their vicinity, e.g. for feeding, antifouling or cell transport. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate that surfaces covered with artificial cilia have the capacity to remove micro-particles from the ciliated area, creating a particle-free area. The artificial cilia used are micro-moulded magnetic artificial cilia (MAC), actuated externally by a homebuilt magnetic setup. The ciliated surface is capable of removing a large size range of particles except for particles which have a diameter that is similar to the cilia pitch. It is also able to remove irregular-shaped sand particles in both water and air. These findings can contribute to the development of novel particle manipulation and self-cleaning/antifouling surfaces, which can find application in, for example, lab-on-a-chip devices and marine antifouling.
KW - Anti-fouling
KW - Lab-on-a-chip
KW - Magnetic artificial cilia
KW - Particle manipulation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85079791221
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85079791221
T3 - 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
SP - 1661
EP - 1663
BT - 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018
PB - Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society
Y2 - 11 November 2018 through 15 November 2018
ER -