A gravity-actuated technique for flexible and portable microfluidic droplet manipulation

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 9, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 995-1001

  Zhang, Kai ^a,b   Liang, Qionglin ^b   Ma, Sai ^b   He, Tianxi ^b   Ai, Xiaoni ^b   Hu, Ping ^a   Wang, Yiming ^b   Luo, Guoan ^a,b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Droplet; Gravity; Manipulation; Microfluidic; Technique

Indexed keywords

CELL RESEARCH; CONTROLLABLE SIZE; DIFFERENT SIZES; DROPLET; DROPLET LENGTH; DROPLET MANIPULATION; DROPLET VOLUME; DROPLET-BASED MICROFLUIDICS; DRUG SCREENING; FUNCTIONAL UNITS; GRAVITY; HIGH-CONTENT; MANIPULATION; REMOTE AREAS; SYRINGE PUMPS; TECHNIQUE;

MICROFLUIDICS; PUMPS;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 77957588299     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0611-6     Document Type: Article

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