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Numerical design of thermophoresis phenomenon for exosomes population separation
1 : MGEP Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa
Manufacturing Department, MGEP Mondragon Goi Eskola Politeknikoa, Loramendi 4 Apartado 23, 20500 Mondragon, Spain -
Espagne
Separation and characterization techniques are growing rapidly in the biomedical world and thermodifussion, as well as thermophoresis, is becoming a challenging subject [1]. This work presents a numerical study of an exosomes separator microdevice, where different populations of vesicles are separated by means of thermal gradients. Different geometrical models,
temperature gradients and entry fluxes have been analysed in order to determine the trajectories of exosomes along the microfluidic device and extract different populations.
