title: Evaporation driven pumping for chromatography application.
abstract: A continuous transport process for liquids in micro-channels is reported. Flow was generated by evaporation at the channel end plus capillary forces. The micro-channels integrated into a two-glass-layer device were 110 microm wide, 28 microm deep and 4 or 10 cm long. A continuous liquid transport velocity of up to 2.25 mm s(-1) was observed for aqueous solutions. The flow velocity is shown to increase when an air stream is guided over the evaporation zone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UKSW7 2AZ.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Goedecke
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eijkel
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Manz