Responsive biomimetic hydrogel valve for microfluidics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 2589-2591

  Yu, Qing ^a   Bauer, Joseph M ^a   Moore, Jeffrey S ^a   Beebe, David J ^a,b  

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

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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EID: 0035938328     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.106.1/1.1367010     Document Type: Article

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