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Salt and migrate

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 769–770 (2008)Cite this article

Adding simple salts to colloidal solutions provides a method of controlling the migration of particles in microfluidic devices.

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Figure 1: Migration of silica colloidal particles in a microfluidic device.
Figure 2: Migration of negatively charged colloidal particles in salt solutions.

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  1. Dennis C. Prieve is at the Centre for Complex Fluids Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA. dcprieve@cmu.edu,

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