Functional hydrogel structures for autonomous flow control inside microfluidic channels

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6778, 2000, Pages 588-590

  Beebe, David J ^a,b   Moore, Jeffrey S ^a   Bauer, Joseph M ^a   Yu, Qing ^a   Liu, Robin H ^a   Devadoss, Chelladurai ^a   Jo, Byung Ho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; FLOW; HYDROGEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034611669     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35007047     Document Type: Article

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