Moving temporary wall in microfluidic devices

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Bazargan, Vahid ^a   Stoeber, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAGULATION; FLUIDIC DEVICES; GELATION; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERS;

CONTROLLED TRANSPORTS; FLOW CHANNELS; FLUID STREAMS; GELATION TEMPERATURES; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNELS; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES; TEMPORARY WALLS; THERMALLY RESPONSIVE; TWO FLUIDS;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 57749111890     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.066303     Document Type: Article

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