Magic microfluidic T-junctions: Valving and bubbling

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1530-1537

  Wang, Liqiu ^a   Zhang, Yuxiang ^a   Cheng, Lin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIC DEVICES;

GENERATION FREQUENCY; INLET PRESSURES; MICRO-BUBBLING; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MICROFLUIDIC COMPONENTS; MICROFLUIDIC T JUNCTIONS; MONO-DISPERSED; SEALING COMPONENT;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 63449090563     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2007.06.020     Document Type: Article

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