Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33670037›Full record

ArticleMicromachines2021

On-Chip Micro Mixer Driven by Elastic Wall with Virtual Actuator.

Toshio Takayama, Makoto Kaneko, Chia-Hung Dylan Tsai

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Toshio TakayamaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.
Makoto KanekoGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Nagoya 468-8502, Japan.
Chia-Hung Dylan TsaiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-8840-3984
Meijo University · JPNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWTokyo Institute of Technology · JP

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant Number. 19H00749
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an on-chip micromixer driven by an elastic wall with a virtual actuator. The on-chip micro mixer is composed of a circular chamber surrounded by a ring-shaped channel under isolation with an elastic wall. When vibrational pressure is put on the driving channel by an actuator, the volume of the circular chamber changes through the deformation of the elastic wall, as if there exists a virtual actuator near the wall. As a result, the liquid in the circular chamber is pushed out and pulled through the neck channel. This action creates a swirling flow in the circular chamber while maintaining isolation from the driving channel. Through experiments, we confirmed the swirling flow under an isolated environment using an air-based valve. The advantage of this approach is that the micromixer can be designed with a single layer having a simple mechanism.

Indexed as

density controlon-chip mixerPDMSvibration

Identifiers

PMID33670037
PMCPMC7926952
OpenAlexW3131250793

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.