%0 Journal Article
%T Controlled Actuation of Liquid Marbles on a Dielectric
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%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b13111
%X Motivated by the great potential of droplet microreactors for chemical and biological applications, a general and robust method utilizing an electric field is developed for sustained, directional and two-dimensional manipulation of nonwetting droplets (termed ¡°liquid marbles¡±). With the understanding of the mechanism of actuation, this method allows individual liquid marbles to be actuated and coalesced on demand by fine-tuning the driving voltage. Moreover, in our system, cross-contamination between marbles during manipulation is avoided as confirmed by the absence of any trace DNA after amplification using a loop-mediated isothermal amplification reaction
%U https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.8b13111