Digital pulse activated cell pump

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6168, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Banister, M ^a   Vohnout, S ^a  

^a Medipacs LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug delivery; Electro activated polymers; Flow control; Hydrogels; Ion polymer metallic composite (IPMC); Polymer gel actuators

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PULSE ACTIVATED CELL PUMPS; DRUG DELIVERY; ELECTRO ACTIVATED POLYMERS (EAP); ION POLYMER METALLIC COMPOSITES (IPMC);

ARRAYS; FLOW CONTROL; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GELS; HYDROGELS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 33745865186     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.658782     Document Type: Conference Paper

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