Extracting the hydrodynamic resistance of droplets from their behavior in microchannel networks

Biomicrofluidics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Labrot, Vincent ^a   Schindler, Michael ^b   Guillot, Pierre ^a   Collin, Annie ^a   Joanicot, Mathieu ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

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EID: 64149083405     PISSN: 19321058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3109686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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