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AC electrokinetics: applications for nanotechnology

Michael Pycraft Hughes

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The phenomena of dielectrophoresis and electrorotation, collectively referred to as AC electrokinetics, have been used for many years to study, manipulate and separate particles on the cellular (1 µm or more) scale. However, the technique has much to offer the expanding field of nanotechnology, that is the precise manipulation of particles on the nanometre scale. In this paper we present the principles of AC electrokinetics for particle manipulation, review the current state of AC electrokinetic techniques for the manipulation of particles on the nanometre scale, and consider how these principles may be applied to nanotechnology.


PACS

82.45.Yz Nanostructured materials in electrochemistry

82.45.Jn Surface structure, reactivity and catalysis

82.45.Fk Electrodes

Subjects

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Chemical physics and physical chemistry

Dates

Issue 2 (June 2000)

Received 15 October 1999



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