Thermally-actuated, phase change flow control for microfluidic systems

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1277-1285

  Chen, Zongyuan ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Qian, Shizhi ^a   Bau, Haim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFLUIDICS; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; VALVE;

EID: 27744534115     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b508275g     Document Type: Article

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