Fabricating Large Arrays of Microwells with Arbitrary Dimensions and Filling Them Using Discontinuous Dewetting

Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2280-2287

  Jackman, Rebecca J ^a   Duffy, David C ^a   Ostuni, Emanuele ^a   Willmore, Nikolaos D ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000242759     PISSN: 00032700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ac971295a     Document Type: Article

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