title: Generating electric fields in PDMS microfluidic devices with salt water electrodes.
abstract: Droplet merging and sorting in microfluidic devices usually rely on electric fields generated by solid metal electrodes. We show that simpler and more reliable salt water electrodes, despite their lower conductivity, can perform the same droplet manipulations at the same voltages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA. adam.abate@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sciambi
authors.forename: Adam R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Abate
mesh_terms: D004129:Dimethylpolysiloxanes / Q000737:chemistry*; D025802:Electric Capacitance; D055664:Electrochemical Techniques; D004655:Emulsions; D004867:Equipment Design; D008422:Materials Testing; D008839:Microelectrodes; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D066330:Printing, Three-Dimensional; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D004129:Dimethylpolysiloxanes; D004655:Emulsions; D012965:Sodium Chloride; C013830:baysilon