Influence of streaming potential on the elastic response of a compliant microfluidic substrate subjected to dynamic loading

Abstract

In the present study, we investigate the effect of streaming potential on the elastic response of a compliant surface subjected to dynamic loading conditions. For illustrating the pertinent physical phenomena, we analyze in particular the dynamical characteristics of the system on squeezing out of a liquid layer through a narrow gap formed between an elasticfluidicsurface and an incipient rigid oscillating sphere. We reveal that the streaming potential effects may amplify the elastic force response of the substrate to a considerable extent. Interestingly and nontrivially, this increment turns out not only to be a function of the pertinent electrokinetic parameters dictating the establishment of the streaming potential, but also a combined consequence of the oscillation frequency and the stiffness of the substrate, consistent with a dynamical interaction between interfacial electrochemical-hydrodynamics and structural responsive characteristics that has hitherto not been emphatically explored.