Surface analysis, hydrophilic enhancement, ageing behavior and flow in plasma modified cyclic olefin copolymer (COC)-based microfluidic devices

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 537-549

  Roy, Sunanda ^a,b   Yue, C Y ^a,b   Lam, Y C ^a,b   Wang, Z Y ^a,b   Hu, Huifang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ageing; COC; Flow; Microfluidics; Plasma treatment; Thermal bonding; Wettability

Indexed keywords

AGEING; COC; FLOW; PLASMA TREATMENT; THERMAL BONDING; WETTABILITY;

ADSORPTION; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ARGON; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTACT ANGLE; FLUIDIC DEVICES; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LEAD COMPOUNDS; MICROFLUIDICS; OLEFINS; OXYGEN; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMAS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SURFACE TREATMENT;

EID: 77958465064     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2010.08.043     Document Type: Article

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