Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Proposes a new size-selective separation concept utilizing the size-tunability of the ice grain boundary
- Provides comprehensive information on the physicochemical properties of freeze-concentrated solutions (FCSs) and the ice/FCS interface
- Shares results that can help design new separation and reaction fields using doped ice, and elucidates the mechanisms of unique phenomena in FCSs
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
This book explores the possibility of using micro/nanostructures formed on the doped ice surface as a novel separation platform. In addition, it provides comprehensive information on the nature of freeze-concentrated solutions (FCSs) and the ice/FCS interface, which play important roles in the natural environment and industrial processes alike. The book proposes a novel size-selective separation approach using channels formed on the doped ice surface. The separation is based on the physical interaction of analytes with channel walls, which is controlled by varying the channel width through temperature and dopant concentration changes. It also shows the precise control of the channel width to be in a range of 200 nm–4 μm and demonstrates the size-selective separation of microspheres, cells, and DNA. The physicochemical properties of FCSs are measured to reveal the nature of the ice/FCS interface, and the zeta potentials of ice are measured by determining EOF rates in a microchannel fabricated in the ice. The deprotonation at OH dangling bonds and adsorption of ions are also discussed. The viscosities of FCSs confined in micro/nanospaces are evaluated by means of two spectroscopic methods. When an FCS is confined in small spaces surrounded by ice, the viscosity increases compared to that in a bulk solution. Interestingly, this viscosity enhancement occurs even though its size is on the micrometer scale. These parameters are essential to discussing the unique phenomena occurring in FCSs. This book provides an explanation of the scientific processes taking place in FCSs, and reveals the potential that frozen solutions hold as innovative micro/nanofluidic devices and reaction platforms.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ice Microfluidics
Book Subtitle: Ice as Size-Tunable Separation Field and Physicochemical Nature of Freeze Concentrated Solutions
Authors: Arinori Inagawa
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8809-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8808-8Published: 24 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8811-8Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8809-5Published: 08 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 125
Topics: Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Biomaterials, Nanochemistry, Nanotechnology