Electro-osmosis on anisotropic super-hydrophobic surfaces

Details Electro-osmosis on anisotropic super-hydrophobic surfaces Electro-osmosis on anisotropic super-hydrophobic surfaces

2011-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/1103.3173v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures; submitted to PRL Revised version: several references added, typos corrected. Supplementary file was restru

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We give a general theoretical description of electro-osmotic flow at striped super-hydrophobic surfaces in a thin double layer limit, and derive a relation between the electro-osmotic mobility and hydrodynamic slip-length tensors. Our analysis demonstrates that electro-osmotic flow shows a very rich behavior controlled by slip length and charge at the gas sectors. In case of uncharged liquid-gas interface, the flow is the same or inhibited relative to flow in homogeneous channel with zero interfacial slip. By contrast, it can be amplified by several orders of magnitude provided slip regions are uniformly charged. When gas and solid regions are oppositely charged, we predict a flow reversal, which suggests a possibility of huge electro-osmotic slip even for electro-neutral surfaces. On the basis of these observations we suggest strategies for practical microfluidic mixing devices. These results provide a framework for the rational design of super-hydrophobic surfaces.

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