Controlling microdrop shape and position for biotechnology using micropatterned rings

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 449-454

  Kalinin, Yevgeniy ^a   Berejnov, Viatcheslav ^a,b   Thorne, Robert E ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contact line; Drop pinning; Microarrays; Microfabricated patterns; Protein crystallization

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG DOSAGE; FLUID MECHANICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TECHNOLOGY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL CONTROLS; CHEMICAL PROCESSING; CONTACT LINE; CONTACT LINE MOTION; CONTACT LINES; DROP PINNING; DROP VOLUME; DRUG DISCOVERIES; HIGH THROUGHPUTS; LIQUID DROPS; MICRO DROP; MICROARRAYS; MICRODROPS; MICROFABRICATED PATTERNS; MICROPATTERNED; NANO-LITER; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC MICRO-PATTERNING; PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION; PROTEIN SOLUTIONS; SOLID SUBSTRATES; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; TWO-PHASE TRANSPORT;

DROPS;

EID: 50649102838     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0272-x     Document Type: Article

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