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Surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device

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Main Authors: Nurulazirah, Md Salih, Uda, Hashim, Prof. Dr., Nafarizal, Nayan, Prof. Madya Dr., Chin, Fhong Soon, Mohd Zainizan, Sahdan, Dr.
Other Authors: nurulazirah13@yahoo.com
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Language:English
Published: Trans Tech Publications 2014
Subjects:
Contact angle
Microfluidic
Paraffin wax
Surface tension
Water flow velocity
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/dspace/handle/123456789/33534
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spelling my.unimap-335342014-04-08T07:45:40Z Surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device Nurulazirah, Md Salih Uda, Hashim, Prof. Dr. Nafarizal, Nayan, Prof. Madya Dr. Chin, Fhong Soon Mohd Zainizan, Sahdan, Dr. nurulazirah13@yahoo.com uda@unimap.edu.my nafa@uthm.edu.my soonuthm.edu.my zainizno@gmail.com Contact angle Microfluidic Paraffin wax Surface tension Water flow velocity Link to publisher's homepage at http://www.ttp.net/ In microfluidic devices, the most important aspect has to be considered for the manufacturing process is the material suitability and geometric design. Among the materials studied, paraffin wax has never been tested and it is proposed as the new approach in this paper for patterning the microchannels. Furthermore, contact angle analysis of the paraffin wax was also studied. Based on the contact angle measurements; the hydrophobicity and surface tension of paraffin wax were analyzed. From the finding, it shows that paraffin wax has a low surface tension and high hydrophobicity. Then, several microchannels design was simulated using COMSOL multiphysics 4.2 software in order to find the optimized geometry. It involves a study of different shape, diameter, length, and angle of microchannels design, and its influence on the water flow velocity. From the simulation results, an optimize microchannels design was obtained consists of 1000 μm channels diameter, 1000 μm inlet channel length, 1.0 cm outlet channels length, and 110o inlet channel angle with water flow velocity of 2.3cm/s. Further study could be done to improve the finding of properties and geometric suitability for microfluidic device. 2014-04-08T07:45:40Z 2014-04-08T07:45:40Z 2014 Article Advanced Materials Research, vol.832, 2014, pages 773-777 1662-8985 http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/dspace/handle/123456789/33534 http://www.scientific.net/AMR.832.773 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.832.773 en Trans Tech Publications
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topic Contact angle
Microfluidic
Paraffin wax
Surface tension
Water flow velocity
spellingShingle Contact angle
Microfluidic
Paraffin wax
Surface tension
Water flow velocity
Nurulazirah, Md Salih
Uda, Hashim, Prof. Dr.
Nafarizal, Nayan, Prof. Madya Dr.
Chin, Fhong Soon
Mohd Zainizan, Sahdan, Dr.
Surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device
description Link to publisher's homepage at http://www.ttp.net/
author2 nurulazirah13@yahoo.com
author_facet nurulazirah13@yahoo.com
Nurulazirah, Md Salih
Uda, Hashim, Prof. Dr.
Nafarizal, Nayan, Prof. Madya Dr.
Chin, Fhong Soon
Mohd Zainizan, Sahdan, Dr.
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author Nurulazirah, Md Salih
Uda, Hashim, Prof. Dr.
Nafarizal, Nayan, Prof. Madya Dr.
Chin, Fhong Soon
Mohd Zainizan, Sahdan, Dr.
author_sort Nurulazirah, Md Salih
title Surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device
title_short Surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device
title_full Surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device
title_fullStr Surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device
title_full_unstemmed Surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device
title_sort surface tension analysis of cost-effective paraffin wax and water flow simulation for microfluidic device
publisher Trans Tech Publications
publishDate 2014
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/dspace/handle/123456789/33534
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