1. of, relating to, or produced by the movement of a liquid through a porous material or membrane under the influence of an applied electric field
Usage: technical; chemistry and physics

Examples

• Electroosmotic flow is used in microfluidic devices to move liquids without mechanical pumps.
• The electroosmotic effect allows charged particles to migrate through gel matrices during electrophoresis.
• Researchers applied an electroosmotic pump to control fluid movement in the laboratory experiment.
• Electroosmotic phenomena are important in capillary electrophoresis techniques.
• The electroosmotic mobility of the solution was measured to determine ion transport rates.