Effects of surfactants on the formation of microdroplets in the flow focusing microfluidic device

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6799, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wu, Nan ^a,b   Zhu, Y ^a   Leech, P W ^a   Sexton, B A ^a   Brown, S ^a   Easton, C ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Enzyme evolution; Microdroplets; Microfluidic; Span80; Tween20

Indexed keywords

BIOCHIPS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISPERSIONS; ENZYMES; MICROFLUIDICS;

ENZYME EVOLUTION; MICRODROPLETS; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 43349097279     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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