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A polymeric high-throughput pressure-driven micromixer Title using a nanoporous membrane Author(s) J?nnig, Oliver; Nguyen, Nam-Trung J?nnig, O., Nguyen, N. T. (2010). A polymeric high- throughput pressure-driven micromixer using a Citation nanoporous membrane. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics ,10(3), 513-519. Date 2010 URL /10220/7854 ? 2010 Springer-Verlag. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Springer-Verlag. It incorporates referee’s Rights comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: DOI: [/10.1007/s10404- 010-0685-1]. Micro?uidics Nano?uidics manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) A polymeric high-throughput pressure-driven micromixer using a nanoporous membrane Oliver J¨annig · Nam-Trung Nguyen · Abstract This paper presents a polymeric high-throughput, pressure-driven nano?u- idic mixer utilizing a nanoporous charge-selective Na?on membrane. The device has no movable parts and is fabricated in PMMA by means of laser machining and thermal bonding. Mixing is achieved by strong vortices occurring above the nanoporous mem- brane when applying an electric ?eld. These vortices are caused by electroconvection in the concentration polarization zone. The mixer is operating at Peclet number as high as 63.5×103 allowing rapid mixing at a high throughput. The design and fabrication of O. J¨anig Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Chemnitz University of Technology Reichenhainer Str. 70, Chemnitz, Germany 09126 N. T. Nguyen School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Nanyang Technological Univer