Droplet formation in microchannels under static conditions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Wu, Liang ^a   Li, Guann Pyng ^a,b   Xu, Wei ^b   Bachman, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATES; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS; NANOVOLUME VESSELS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDICS; GEOMETRY; SURFACE TENSION;

FLUIDIC DEVICES;

EID: 33749499530     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2358857     Document Type: Article

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