Various traveling wave grids and electrophoretic systems, and electrode assemblies using such grids, are disclosed. A configuration in which a voltage potential is used to load a biomolecule sample against a grid is disclosed. A unique strategy of using multiple, reconfigurable grids in such systems...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US7156970?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7156970 - Distributed multi-segmented reconfigurable traveling wave grids for separation of proteins in gel electrophoresis