The origins and the future of microfluidics

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7101, 2006, Pages 368-373

  Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; OPTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

COMMERCIALIZATION; MICROFLUIDICS;

FLUIDICS;

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; FLUID; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CHEMOSTAT; CRYSTALLIZATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNTHESIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG INDUSTRY; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL; DRUG INDUSTRY; ELECTRONICS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 33747117373     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05058     Document Type: Review

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