Question

What is electrophoresis

Answer 1

Solution:

Electrophoresis:

The migration and separation of charged particles such as ions upon application of an external electric field is called "Electrophoresis".

It is known that, when we apply an electric field on any charged particles, they gain drift velocity and move in a specific direction depends on the charge of the particle. This drift velocity is expressed as follows

where,

As we have two different charges (positive and negative), typical electrophoresis set up consists of two electrodes (anode and cathode).

These charged particles were separated by utilizing the screening the parameters such as current, voltage and power.

Factors that are effecting the mobility of these charged particles are concentration, pH, particle size, shape and temperature etc...