Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2012-03-23
Soft Matter 8, 3900 (2012)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
We theoretically predict and experimentally demonstrate that several different particle species can be separated from each other by means of a ratchet device, consisting of periodically arranged triangular (ratchet) shaped obstacles. We propose an explicit algorithm for suitably tailoring the externally applied, time-dependent voltage protocol so that one or several, arbitrarily selected particle species are forced to migrate oppositely to all the remaining species. As an example we present numerical simulations for a mixture of five species, labelled according to their increasing size, so that species 2 and 4 simultaneously move in one direction and species 1, 3, and 5 in the other. The selection of species to be separated from the others can be changed at any time by simply adapting the voltage protocol. This general theoretical concept to utilize one device for many different sorting tasks is experimentally confirmed for a mixture of three colloidal particle species.
Anselmetti Dario
Bogunovic Lukas
Eichhorn Ralf
Regtmeier Jan
Reimann Peter
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