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Published on: July 14, 2021
Finite-element analysis of magnetic field driven transport at inlaid platinum microdisk electrodes
1Department of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
Abstract:
We describe a computer-assisted analysis of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid flow resulting from the passage of electrochemically generated charge through a uniform magnetic field. Magnetic field driven molecular transport in electrochemical systems offers a number of emerging opportunities in research and technology. For instance, electrochemical microfluidic transport and molecule trapping using magnetic fields and field gradients have been demonstrated in recent reports from this laboratory. A key limitation of these investigations is the difficulty in analyzing magnetic field driven flow and transport, due to the complexity of the governing equations of fluid mechanics, electrochemical molecular transport, and magnetic forces. In general, quantitative expressions describing the distribution and fluxes of electroactive species under the influence of a magnetic field cannot be obtained by a direct analytical solution.
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