A debubbler for microfluidics utilizing air-liquid interfaces

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Cheng, Daming ^a   Jiang, Hongrui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BUBBLES; AIR LIQUID INTERFACES; AIR SLUG; AQUEOUS LIQUIDS; ARRAY OF CYLINDERS; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MICROLITERS; NANOLITERS;

LIQUIDS; MICROFLUIDICS; SURFACE TENSION;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 71549154369     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3263944     Document Type: Article

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