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Syms RRA, Wright S. Solvent-pumped evaporation concentration on paper in linear and radial geometries. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2023; 17:044103. [PMID: 37576441 PMCID: PMC10415022 DOI: 10.1063/5.0161199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
Abstract
Solvent-pumped evaporation-driven concentration of an initial distribution of solutes on a porous substrate is considered in one and two dimensions. Approximate analytic solutions to the isotropic advection-dispersion equations are first found for a Gaussian kernel and an infinite domain, following the smoothed particle approximation. Analytic solutions for more general initial distributions are then found as sums of Gaussians, and comparison is made with numerical solutions. In each case, initial distributions are advected toward the stagnation point and concentrated. Two-dimensional analysis is then extended to describe anisotropy in permeability and diffusion, and hydrodynamic dispersion. Radial-flow experiments are performed using filter papers and water-soluble dyes. Diffusion coefficients, temperature and humidity profiles, and the evolution of spot distributions are measured. The results confirm minor anisotropy in permeability and diffusion, limited hydrodynamic dispersion, and largely uniform evaporation. Péclet numbers over 2500 are demonstrated. Evaporation-driven concentration provides a mechanism for solute transport over long timescales. Potential applications lie in the design of paper spray microanalytical devices operating by solvent pumping rather than capillary flow.
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Affiliation(s)
- Richard R. A. Syms
- EEE Department, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- EEE Department, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Patari S, Sinha Mahapatra P. Imbibition of Liquids through a Paper Substrate in a Controlled Environment. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2022; 38:4736-4746. [PMID: 35394790 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Liquid spreading on open surfaces is a widely observed phenomenon. The physics of liquid spreading has become more complex when the surface is porous like paper or fabrics due to the evaporation of the liquid and swelling of the fibers. In this study, we have performed liquid imbibition experiments on paper strips in a controlled environment with and without using hydrophobic boundaries. The experimental results are compared to the existing analytical models that account for each effect separately. The existing models were found to be inaccurate in predicting the experimental results. We developed new analytical models by modifying existing models to predict the capillary rise of the liquid through the paper substrate accurately. Different effects, such as the barrier (hydrophobic boundary), evaporation, and swelling, are considered simultaneously while developing the modified models to mimic the exact practical situation for the first time. We discovered that the modified models predict the experimental results more accurately than the existing models. For cases with and without barriers, the final models considering several effects simultaneously predict the data with a maximum error range of 7 and 10%, respectively. Finally, we conducted capillary rise experiments with volatile (water) and non-volatile (silicon oil) liquids at various temperatures and under various relative humidity conditions to validate the analytical results.
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- Subhashis Patari
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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A One-Dollar, Disposable, Paper-Based Microfluidic Chip for Real-Time Monitoring of Sweat Rate. MICROMACHINES 2022; 13:mi13030414. [PMID: 35334706 PMCID: PMC8950908 DOI: 10.3390/mi13030414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Collecting sweat and monitoring its rate is important for determining body condition and further sweat analyses, as this provides vital information about physiologic status and fitness level and could become an alternative to invasive blood tests in the future. Presented here is a one-dollar, disposable, paper-based microfluidic chip for real-time monitoring of sweat rate. The chip, pasted on any part of the skin surface, consists of a skin adhesive layer, sweat-proof layer, sweat-sensing layer, and scale layer with a disk-shape from bottom to top. The sweat-sensing layer has an impressed wax micro-channel containing pre-added chromogenic agent to show displacement by sweat, and the sweat volume can be read directly by scale lines without any electronic elements. The diameter and thickness of the complete chip are 25 mm and 0.3 mm, respectively, permitting good flexibility and compactness with the skin surface. Tests of sweat flow rate monitoring on the left forearm, forehead, and nape of the neck of volunteers doing running exercise were conducted. Average sweat rate on left forearm (1156 g·m−2·h−1) was much lower than that on the forehead (1710 g·m−2·h−1) and greater than that on the nape of the neck (998 g·m−2·h−1), in good agreement with rates measured using existing common commercial sweat collectors. The chip, as a very low-cost and convenient wearable device, has wide application prospects in real-time monitoring of sweat loss by body builders, athletes, firefighters, etc., or for further sweat analyses.
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Bai Y, Pu C, Liu S, Liu J. Carboxyl/alkyl composite silica-based amphiphilic nanoparticles enhanced spontaneous imbibition of low permeability sandstone rocks at reservoir conditions. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.127504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Wang X, Jia P, Sun S, He X, Lu TJ, Xu F, Feng S. Evaporation-Induced Diffusion Acceleration in Liquid-Filled Porous Materials. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:21646-21654. [PMID: 34471768 PMCID: PMC8388088 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Liquid-filled porous materials exist widely in nature and engineering fields, with the diffusion of substances in them playing an important role in system functions. Although surface evaporation is often inevitable in practical scenarios, the evaporation effects on diffusion behavior in liquid-filled porous materials have not been well explored yet. In this work, we performed noninvasive diffusion imaging experiments to observe the diffusion process of erioglaucine disodium salt dye in a liquid-filled nitrocellulose membrane under a wide range of relative humidities (RHs). We found that evaporation can significantly accelerate the diffusion rate and alter concentration distribution compared with the case without evaporation. We explained the accelerated diffusion phenomenon by the mechanism that evaporation would induce a weak flow in liquid-filled porous materials, which leads to convective diffusion, i.e., evaporation-induced flow and diffusion (EIFD). Based on the EIFD mechanism, we proposed a convective diffusion model to quantitatively predict the diffusion process in liquid-filled porous materials under evaporation and experimentally validated the model. Introducing the dimensionless Peclet (P e) number to measure the relative contribution of the evaporation effect to pure molecular diffusion, we demonstrated that even at a high RH of 95%, where the evaporation effect is usually assumed negligible in common sense, the evaporation-induced diffusion still overwhelms the molecular diffusion. The flow velocity induced by evaporation in liquid-filled porous materials was found to be 0.4-5 μm/s, comparable to flow in many biological and biomedical systems. The present analysis may help to explain the driving mechanism of tissue perfusion and provide quantitative analysis or inspire new control methods of flow and material exchange in numerous cutting-edge technologies, such as paper-based diagnostics, hydrogel-based flexible electronics, evaporation-induced electricity generation, and seawater purification.
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- Xuefeng Wang
- The
Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of
Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China
- Bioinspired
Engineering and Biomechanics Center (BEBC), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.
R. China
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- The
Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of
Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China
- Bioinspired
Engineering and Biomechanics Center (BEBC), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.
R. China
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- Bioinspired
Engineering and Biomechanics Center (BEBC), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.
R. China
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- The
Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of
Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China
- Bioinspired
Engineering and Biomechanics Center (BEBC), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.
R. China
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- State
Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
- Nanjing
Center for Multifunctional Lightweight Materials and Structures (MLMS), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P. R. China
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- The
Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of
Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China
- Bioinspired
Engineering and Biomechanics Center (BEBC), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.
R. China
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- The
Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of
Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China
- Bioinspired
Engineering and Biomechanics Center (BEBC), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.
R. China
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Modha S, Castro C, Tsutsui H. Recent developments in flow modeling and fluid control for paper-based microfluidic biosensors. Biosens Bioelectron 2021; 178:113026. [PMID: 33545552 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2021.113026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Over the last 10 years, researchers have shown that paper is a promising substrate for affordable biosensors. The field of paper-microfluidics has evolved rapidly in that time, with simple colorimetric assays giving way to more complex electrochemical devices that can handle multiple samples at a given time. As paper devices become more complex, the ability to precisely control different fluids simultaneously becomes a challenge. Specifically, automated flow control is a necessary attribute to make paper-based devices more useable in resource-limited settings. Flow control strategies on paper are typically developed experimentally through trial-and-error, with little focus on theory. This is because flow behavior in paper is not well understood and sometimes difficult to predict precisely. Additionally, popular theoretical models are too simplistic, making them unsuitable for complex device designs and application conditions. A better understanding of flow theory would allow devices conceived straight from theoretical models. This could save time and resources by reducing experimental work. In this review, we provide an overview of different theoretical models used to characterize imbibition in paper substrates and document the latest flow control strategies that have been applied to automated fluid control on paper. Additionally, we look at current efforts to commercialize paper-based devices along with challenges facing this industry.
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- Sidharth Modha
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, CA, 91768, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA; Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA; Stem Cell Center, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
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