Modeling of Interfaces and Surface Microfluidics
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 January 2023) | Viewed by 1232
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanaotechnologies; nanoscience; machine learning; artificial intelligence; atomistic modelling; multiscale modeling
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Dear Colleagues,
Microfluidic devices can be used in many applications, such as biomedical or biological analysis or during water cleaning and purification, just to mention few ones. As the related experiments are not easy to perform at the microscale and they are relatively complex, modeling and simulation are important in the facilitation and acceleration of microfluidic device designs, such as MEMS. Surfaces play an important role at the microscale as they can affect flows. A considerable amount of research has been carried out regarding surface modification in microfluidic designs, as it can affect the flowrate through slip based on a surface’s hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity or assist with ion separation in other cases. Functionalization is another important area of research. Several methods are employed in modeling, such as molecular dynamics and dissipative particle dynamics, to name a couple. However, in several cases, these methods have to be combined in order to achieve better resolution, and more recently, methods coupled with machine learning have been developed.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- The multiscale modeling of surfaces and interfaces in microfluidics;
- Machine-learning-assisted modeling of surfaces and interfaces in microfluidics;
- Complex hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces;
- Applications of modeling in biological fluid devices;
- Applications in desalination and water purification using microfluidic devices;
- Membranes made from micropores.
Prof. Dr. Theodoros Karakasidis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microfluidics surface modeling
- surface modification
- surface functionalization
- molecular dynamics simulation of microfluidic surfaces
- dissipative particle dynamics
- smoothed-particle hydrodynamics
- hydrophobic/hydrophilic surfaces
