Focusing suspended particles in a fluid into a single file is often necessary prior to continuous-flow detection, analysis, and separation. Electrokinetic particle focusing has been demonstrated in constricted microchannels by the use of the constriction-induced dielectrophoresis. However, previous studies on this subject have been limited to Newtonian fluids only. We report in this paper an ex...

Fluoride removal from aqueous solutions using a-Al2O3 as an adsorbent was investigated through adsorption and electrokinetic studies, using two different initial fluoride concentrations relevant to fluoride contents in drinking water, namely 3 and 10 mg/L. Maximum fluoride removal was achieved between pH 5 and 6 at 258C. Adsorption at both pH 5 and 9 correlates to the Langmuir isotherm. The poi...

The electrokinetic surfaces of cells of the TA3 ascites tumour of the mouse and the M.Mel. 1 ascites tumour of the golden hamster have been studied for the past 3 years. It became evident that with regard to their electrophoretic mobility (E.P.M.), TA3 cells were stable and melanoma cells were not. Therefore, results discussed in this paper only refer to the melanoma 'subline' used for the pres...

A series of batch tests were conducted to investigate the relative desorption potential of mercury from kaolin and glacial till soils under the effect of three extractant agents, namely, KI, NaEDTA and NaCl (all of them with a concentration of 0.1 M). These tests were conducted under different pH conditions (within a pH range between 2 and 12). Also batch tests using deionized water were perfor...

1. The electrophoretic velocities of gelatin-, egg-albumin-, and gliadin-covered quartz particles in various alcohol-water solutions are, within the limits employed in usual experimental procedures, proportional to the field strength. 2. The electrophoretic mobilities of small, irregularly shaped quartz particles covered with an adsorbed film of protein in alcohol-water solutions are equal to t...

In recent years different electrokinetic cell models for concentrated colloidal suspensions in aqueous electrolyte solutions have been developed. They share some of its premises with the standard electrokinetic model for dilute colloidal suspensions, in particular, neglecting both the specific role of the so-called added counterions (i.e., those released by the particles to the solution as they...