Reliable addition of reagents into microfluidic droplets

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 409-416

  Sivasamy, Jayaprakash ^a,b   Chim, Yong Cai ^a   Wong, Teck Neng ^a   Nguyen, Nam Trung ^a   Yobas, Levent ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Droplet coalescence; Droplet merging; Droplet microfludics; Reagent addition

Indexed keywords

AXIAL ARRANGEMENT; DROPLET BREAKUP; DROPLET COALESCENCE; DROPLET FORMATION; FLUID FLOW; LAPLACE PRESSURE; MERGING PROCESS; MICROFLUDICS; MIXING TIME; PRESSURE BUILD UP; T JUNCTIONS;

COALESCENCE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MERGING;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 77649235658     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-009-0531-5     Document Type: Article

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