Hydrodynamic focusing with a microlithographic manifold: Controlling the vertical position of a focused sample

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 569-578

  Kennedy, Matthew J ^a   Stelick, Scott J ^b   Perkins, Sasha L ^b   Cao, Li ^a   Batt, Carl A ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTER-OF-MASS; CONCENTRATION DISTRIBUTIONS; DATA SETS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FOCUSING ACTION; HYDRODYNAMIC FOCUSING; MIXING EXPERIMENTS; MULTIPHYSICS SOFTWARE; VERTICAL POSITIONS; VISUAL COMPARISON;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FOCUSING; MICROCHANNELS;

FLUIDS;

EID: 70349994798     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-009-0417-6     Document Type: Article

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