Date of download: 10/1/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Use of Bacterial Carpets to Enhance Mixing in Microfluidic Systems J. Fluids Eng. 2006;129(3):319-324. doi:10.1115/1.2427083 Figure Legend: Schematic of the bacterial mixing system and micrograph of the bacterial carpet as it develops inside the microfluidic system. The picture is taken 2000s after the initiation of the flow deposition procedure. The scale bar is 5μm.

Date of download: 10/1/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Use of Bacterial Carpets to Enhance Mixing in Microfluidic Systems J. Fluids Eng. 2006;129(3):319-324. doi:10.1115/1.2427083 Figure Legend: Enhancement over Brownian diffusion as a function of time at different temperatures. The rising temperatures increase the metabolic activity of the cells resulting in increased diffusion enhancement. However, that increased activity also hastens the carpet’s catabolic poisoning, resulting in a faster decay in the mixing activity. Error bars represent standard deviations based on five sets of measurement.

Date of download: 10/1/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Use of Bacterial Carpets to Enhance Mixing in Microfluidic Systems J. Fluids Eng. 2006;129(3):319-324. doi:10.1115/1.2427083 Figure Legend: Enhancement over Brownian motion of the tracer particle diffusion coefficient as a function of time. Two measurement series are shown: with the plain motility buffer (circles) and with 20mM glucose added (squares). Error bars represent standard deviations based on five sets of measurement.