High-performance flow-focusing geometry for spontaneous generation of monodispersed droplets

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1073-1079

  Yobas, Levent ^a   Martens, Stefan ^a,b   Ong, Wee Liat ^a   Ranganathan, Nagarajan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b RHEINMAIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL; SILICON; WATER;

ARTICLE; FLOW RATE; GEOMETRY; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 33746554814     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b602240e     Document Type: Article

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