Discrete magnetic microfluidics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Egatz Gómez, Ana ^a   Melle, Sonia ^a,d   García, Antonio A ^a   Lindsay, S A ^a   Marquez M ^a   Dominguez Garcia P ^b   Rubio, Miguel A ^b   Picraux, S T ^a,e   Taraci, J L ^a   Clement, T ^a   Yang, D ^a   Hayes, Mark A ^c   Gust, Devens ^c  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e CENTER FOR INTEGRATED NANOTECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS DROPS; DROP MOVEMENTS; MICROFLUIDICS; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC SURFACES;

COALESCENCE; DROP FORMATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; PERMANENT MAGNETS;

FLUIDICS;

EID: 33746281401     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2227517     Document Type: Article

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