Microfluidic systems for chemical kinetics that rely on chaotic mixing in droplets

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1818, 2004, Pages 1087-1104

  Bringer, Michelle R ^a   Gerdts, Cory J ^a   Song, Helen ^a   Tice, Joshua D ^a   Ismagilov, Rustem F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaotic advection; Droplet; Kinetics; Microfluidics; Mixing; Multiphase flow

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442512994     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1364     Document Type: Article

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