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Conference Organizers


Stuart J. Williams
University of Louisville

Soumya Srivastava
West Virginia University

Alex Hyler
CytoRecovery

Dielectrophoresis Conference Series Organizing Committee

Tayloria Adams, Robbyn Anand, Federica Caselli, Jonathan Cottet, Rafael Davalos, Lisa Flanagan, Pablo Garcia-Sanchez, Nicolas Green, Carlotta Guiducci, Mark Hayes, Erin Henslee, Ralph Hölzel, Mike Hughes, Stuart Ibsen, Fatima Labeed, Blanca Lapizco-Encinas, Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte, Adrienne Minerick, Georg Pesch, Antonio Ramos, Riccardo Reale, Alexandra Ros, Nathan Swami, Stuart Williams, Gilad Yossifon

Special Collection in Electrophoresis

Electrophoresis is an international journal focusing on advances in electrophoresis, separations, microfluidics, and electrokinetics. This journal has historically organized special issues highlighting work presented at the DEP conferences.
We are coordinating with the journal  Electrophoresis to organize a Collections of publications highlighting work featured at DEP2026! Any information regarding this Collection will be posted here.
Visit Electrophoresis  to see prior highlights of DEP conferences.

Front cover of Electrophoresis highlighting work featured in DEP 2021.
Link to this issue.

What is dielectrophoresis (DEP)?

Dielectrophoresis is the movement of dielectric particles when exposed to a non-uniform electric field. This phenomenon is typically utlized at the microscale where significant electric fields (> 106 V/m) can be created using moderate voltages applied to micrometer-patterned electrodes. Advances in microfabrication technologies and microfluidics has enabled DEP to be applied to a variety of fields.
DEP has been used to manipulate marine phytoplankton, lunar dust, gold nanoparticles, red blood cells, bacteria, gold nanoparticles, and much more! Applied forces are dependend on the electrical properties (permittivity, conductivity) of the medium and the particle. Other electrokinetic effects may also occur, including Joule heating and electrohydrodynamics.
DEP has been studied for decades and there are many resources available to learn more about DEP and microscale electrokinetics:
  • Dielectrophoresis: Theory, Methodology and Biological Applications  textbook by Ronald Pethig (2017) [link]
  • "Introduction to Dielectrophoresis" YouTube video by Stuart Williams (2017) [link]
  • AES Electrophoresis Society: non-profit group dedicated to advancing electrokinetic science [link]    

A suspension of 3 micrometer polystyrene particles being organized due to the application of a non-uniform AC electric field. Image credit to Stuart J. Williams.