A passive microfluidic valve fabricated from a hydrogel filled with carbon nanotubes

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1417-1421

  Song, Young Seok ^a  

^a Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; HYDROGEL COMPOSITES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MICROFLUIDIC VALVES; PASSIVE VALVES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; SWELLING FEATURES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; FLUIDIC DEVICES; HYDROGELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84155167651     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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