Monodispersed microfluidic droplet generation by shear focusing microfluidic device

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 350-356

  Tan, Yung Chieh ^a   Cristini, Vittorio ^a,b   Lee, Abraham P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel design; Droplets; PDMS; Satellite droplets; Submicron droplets

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL DESIGN; FLOW RATES; SATELLITE DROPLETS;

DROP BREAKUP; NOZZLES; SATELLITES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLUIDIC DEVICES;

EID: 33244490039     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2005.06.008     Document Type: Article

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