Microfluidic phase change valve with a two-level cooling/heating system

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 435-445

  Gui, Lin ^a   Yu, Bo Yang ^a   Ren, Carolyn L ^a   Huissoon, Jan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Freeze thaw valve; Microfluidics; Phase change valve

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT CHANNELS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; COOLING TIME; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; FREEZE/THAW; LIQUID SOLIDS; MICRO FLUIDIC APPLICATIONS; MICRO VALVES; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHASE CHANGE; SECOND-LEVEL; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL IMPACTS; WORKING MEDIUM;

LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCHANNELS; SUPERCOOLING; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 79551474313     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0683-3     Document Type: Article

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