Micropositioning and microscopic observation of individual picoliter-sized containers within SU-8 microchannels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-194

  Jenke, Martin G ^a   Schreiter, Christoph ^a   Kim, Gyu Man ^a,b   Vogel, Horst ^a   Brugger, Jürgen ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electrophoretic micromanipulation; Microfluidics; Rapid prototyping; SU 8

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELLS; ELECTROPHORESIS; LIPIDS; MICROCHANNELS; PHOTORESISTS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BIOLOGICAL CELLS; MICROFLUIIC CHANNELS; VESICLES;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 33847141438     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-006-0119-2     Document Type: Article

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