Capillarity in microfluidic channels with hydrophilic and hydrophobic walls

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 443-448

  Jokinen, Ville ^a,b   Franssila, Sami ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Hydrophilic; Openmicro channel; SU 8; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HYDROPHILICITY; MICROCHANNELS; NANOFLUIDICS; NONMETALS; OXYGEN; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY DRIVE; CAPILLARY FILLING; HYDROPHILIC; HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC; MICRO-FLUIDIC CHANNELS; OPENMICRO CHANNEL; OXYGEN PLASMAS; PARTIAL FILLING; SU-8; SURFACE TENSION;

HYDROPHOBICITY;

EID: 50649105995     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0263-y     Document Type: Article

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