Boosting migration of large particles by solute contrasts

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 785-789

  Abecassis B ^a,b   Cottin Bizonne, C ^a   Ybert, C ^a   Ajdari, A ^b   Bocquet, L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIFFUSION;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; FINGERING PHENOMENA; HYDRODYNAMIC FOCUSING; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; REACTION-DIFFUSION PROCESS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 52549109214     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2254     Document Type: Article

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