Guided and fluidic self-assembly of microstructures using railed microfluidicchannels

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 581-587

  Chung, Su Eun ^a   Park, Wook ^a   Shin, Sunghwan ^a   Lee, Seung Ah ^a   Kwon, Sunghoon ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; POLYMERS;

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; FABRICATION METHOD; FLUIDIC CHANNELS; FLUIDIC SELF-ASSEMBLY; GUIDED SELF-ASSEMBLY; MATERIALS SYSTEMS; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; POLYMERIC MICROSTRUCTURES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 45849140536     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2208     Document Type: Article

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