Sedimentation pinched-flow fractionation for size- and density-based particle sorting in microchannels

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-110

  Morijiri, Tomoki ^a   Sunahiro, Satoshi ^a,b   Senaha, Masashi ^a   Yamada, Masumi ^a   Seki, Minoru ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Centrifugal microfluidics; Density; Inertial microfluidics; Particle separation; Pinched flow fractionation

Indexed keywords

BIOANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CENTRIFUGAL FORCES; CENTRIFUGAL MICROFLUIDICS; CURVED MICROCHANNEL; DENSITY-BASED; ENVIRONMENTAL PARTICLES; FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS; HIGH DEMAND; INERTIAL FORCES; MICRO DEVICES; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICRO-PARTICLES; MICRO-SCALES; PARTICLE INERTIA; PARTICLE MOVEMENT; PARTICLE SEPARATION; PARTICLE SORTING; SEDIMENTATION EFFECTS; THEORETICAL ESTIMATION;

CENTRIFUGATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FRACTIONATION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; ROTATION;

SCREENING;

EID: 84855955879     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0785-6     Document Type: Article

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