Chaotic mixing using source-sink microfluidic flows in a PDMS chip

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 749-759

  Tekin, H Cumhur ^a   Sivagnanam, Venkataragavalu ^a   Ciftlik, A Tuna ^a   Sayah, Abdeljalil ^a   Vandevyver, Caroline ^a   Gijs, Martin A M ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chaotic advection; Keywords Fixed volume mixer; Microfluidics; PDMS; Source sink flow; Valve

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC ADVECTION; KEYWORDS FIXED-VOLUME MIXER; PDMS; SOURCE-SINK; VALVE;

ADVECTION; MICROCHANNELS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; SILICONES; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 79955960734     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-010-0706-0     Document Type: Article

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