A fast and simple method to fabricate circular microchannels in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 545-551

  Abdelgawad, Mohamed ^a   Wu, Chun ^a   Chien, Wei Yin ^b   Geddie, William R ^c   Jewett, Michael A S ^a,d   Sun, Yu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE; HEPTANE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATERIAL COATING; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 78751469492     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0lc00093k     Document Type: Article

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