This is awesome. I am highly interested in the BioTech space and happened to work with electro-wetting for zero gravity space applications almost 10 years ago!
This is such a cool application of the tech. Everything is accelerating in biotech.
We were using electro-wetting as a low power heat pipe on the Space Station, since heat doesn’t dissipate the same way there as it does on Earth. The tech I built with some engineers used these tiny DC to DC high voltage transformers that would step up the voltage from the 18V power supply to something like 450V on the circuit board to enable the electro-wetting heat pipes to move water droplets.
Would love to chat sometime if you are ever interested.
This is such a cool application of the tech. Everything is accelerating in biotech.
We were using electro-wetting as a low power heat pipe on the Space Station, since heat doesn’t dissipate the same way there as it does on Earth. The tech I built with some engineers used these tiny DC to DC high voltage transformers that would step up the voltage from the 18V power supply to something like 450V on the circuit board to enable the electro-wetting heat pipes to move water droplets.
Would love to chat sometime if you are ever interested.
For reference, our very scrappy POC for the space station: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190006008/downloads/20...