Mixing in microchannels based on hydrodynamic focusing and time-interleaved segmentation: Modelling and experiment

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1320-1326

  Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a   Huang, Xiaoyang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; DISPERSION; FLOW RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 27744504904     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b507548c     Document Type: Article

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