Photo-responsive hydrogel for controlling flow on a microfluidic chip

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6343 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Al Aribe, Khaled ^a   Knopf, George K ^a   Bassi, Amarjeet S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteriorhodopsin; Microactuator; Optical actuation; pH sensitivity; PVA hydrogel

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; OPTICAL ACTUATION;

CROSSLINKING; MICROACTUATORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 33749857740     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.707765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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