Applied Science

Electro-osmosis: pumping water with electricity and no magnets (2019x3)

Air date: Feb 20, 2019

An electro-osmotic pump is an unusual and interesting way to pump fluids and also measure their flow rate with only an electric field (no magnets). Refs (in order of relevance) https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/S0039-9140(99)00320-3 http://micromachine.stanford.edu/~dlaser/research_pages/electrokinetics_and_eof.html https://www3.nd.edu/~changlab/documents/Youcef.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2756694/ https://psec.uchicago.edu/library/photocathodes/SiO2_OH_model.pdf https://www.patreon.com/AppliedScience