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Article Dans Une Revue Analytical Chemistry Année : 2011

Self-Arraying of Charged Levitating Droplets

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Diamagnetic levitation of water droplets in air is a promising phenomenon to achieve contactless manipulation of chemical or biochemical samples. This noncontact handling technique prevents contaminations of samples as well as provides measurements of interaction forces between levitating reactors. Under a nonuniform magnetic field, diamagnetic bodies such as water droplets experience a repulsive force which may lead to diamagnetic levitation of a single or few micro-objects. The levitation of several repulsively charged picoliter droplets was successfully performed in a 1 mm2 adjustable flat magnetic well provided by a centimeter-sized cylindrical permanent magnet structure. Each droplet position results from the balance between the centripetal diamagnetic force and the repulsive Coulombian forces. Levitating water droplets self-organize into satellite patterns or thin clouds, according to their charge and size. Small triangular lattices of identical droplets reproduce magneto-Wigner crystals. Repulsive forces and inner charges can be measured in the piconewton and the femtocoulomb ranges, respectively. Evolution of interaction forces is accurately followed up over time during droplet evaporation.
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hal-00597573 , version 1 (01-06-2011)

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Paul Kauffmann, Jérémie Nussbaumer, Alain Masse, Christian Jeandey, Henri Grateau, et al.. Self-Arraying of Charged Levitating Droplets. Analytical Chemistry, 2011, 83 (11), pp.4126-4131. ⟨10.1021/ac2002774⟩. ⟨hal-00597573⟩
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