Electrohydrodynamic sample distortion during continuous flow electrophoresis is an experiment to be conducted during the second International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) in July 1994. The specific objective of this experiment is the distortion caused by the difference in dielectric constant between the sample and surrounding buffer. Although the role of sample constant, independent of sample conductivity, has not been measured. This paper describes some of the laboratory research and model development that will support the flight experiment on IML-2.
Rhodes, P.H., Snyder, R.S., Roberts, G.O., Role of Dielectric Constant in Electrohydrodynamics of Conducting Fluids, 2nd Microgravity Fluid Physics Conference, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, CP 3276, pp. 369-374, June 21, 1994.