Coding/decoding and reversibility of droplet trains in microfluidic networks

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5813, 2007, Pages 828-832

  Fuerstman, Michael J ^a   Garstecki, Piotr ^b   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROPLET; FLUID FLOW; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; SIGNAL;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; LIQUID; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MISCIBILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALKANES; CAPILLARITY; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; COLORING AGENTS; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFLUIDICS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 33846984899     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1134514     Document Type: Article

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24. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under award DE-FG02 OOER45852. P.G. thanks the Foundation for Polish Science for financial support. We thank the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems for the use of microfabrication facilities and the fast cameras.