A 'Lab-on-Chip' design for miniature autonomous bio/chemoprospecting planetary rovers

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 115-130

  Santoli, Salvatore ^a  

^a INT International Nanobiological Testbed Ltd   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lab on Chip; MEMS; Microengineering; Microfluidics; Microrovers; MOEMS; Nanotechnology; NEMS; Planetary exploration

Indexed keywords

FAST CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LAB-ON-CHIP; MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES; MICRO-ENGINEERING; MICROROVERS; PLANETARY EXPLORATION; PLANETARY-EXPLORATION MISSIONS; SPACE EXPLORATION MISSION;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; BIOINFORMATICS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; MEMS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOEMS; NANOELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEMS; PLANETARY LANDERS; REACTION KINETICS; SOLID STATE DEVICES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACE RESEARCH;

NANOFLUIDICS;

EID: 28044449767     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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