Recently the research on the particle separation is going along various method and using in a biomedical application. I have demonstrated the separation of particle using the force balance on the size different micro-particles between inertial and vis...
Recently the research on the particle separation is going along various method and using in a biomedical application. I have demonstrated the separation of particle using the force balance on the size different micro-particles between inertial and viscous force in a nozzle shape of microchannel. If fluid flow rate maintain high velocity(0.01~1㎧), the Reynolds number can attain very high field and ignored inertial force appear compared with viscous force. And Stokes number is relative to the radius of particle other things being equal, so I can forecast the movement of different size particles and convinced these by simulation and experiment. This technique requires only hydraulic force and has high-throughput due to the high flow rate. Thus this research is useful in the case of using a variety of size cells including circulating tumor cells(CTC) instead of particle.