Surface-tension-confined microfluidics

Langmuir

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 948-951

  Lam, Philippe ^a,b   Wynne, Kenneth J ^a   Wnek, Gary E ^a  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

^b GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHOBICITY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES;

FLUIDIC DEVICES;

EID: 0037022471     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la010589v     Document Type: Article

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12. Experiments with pumping utilized a Masterflex L/S digital drive peristaltic pump with two size 13 heads set at up to several tens of mL/min.
13. lv(h - w cosθ)Δl and dividing by Δl gives eq 1.
14. 0.5.