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. 2011 May 18;12(5):3263–3287. doi: 10.3390/ijms12053263

Table 1.

Performance of active micromixers in recent five years [111].

Categories Mixing Technique Mixing Time (ms) Mixing Length (μm) Mixing Index Reference
Acoustic/Ultrasonic Acoustically driven sidewall-trapped microbubbles 120 650 0.025 [1]
Acoustic streaming induced by surface acoustic wave 600 10,000 0.9 [2]
Dielectrophoretic Chaotic advection based on Linked Twisted Map - 1000 0.85 [3]
Electrokinetic time-pulsed Chaotic electric fields 100 Width * 5.0 0.95 [4]
Periodic electro-osmotic flow - 200 0.88 [5]
Electrohydrodynamic force Staggered herringbone structure - 825 0.2 [6]
Staggered herringbone structure - 2300 0.5 [7]
Thermal actuation Thermal - 6000 - [8]
Magneto-hydrodynamic flow High operating frequency 1100 500 0.977 [9]
Electrokinetic instability Low Reynolds number - 1200 0.98 [10]
Low Reynolds number - 1200 0..98 [11]