Surface properties of glass micropipettes and their effect on biological studies

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-10

  Malboubi, Majid ^a   Gu, Yuchun ^b   Jiang, Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE SURFACE ROUGHNESS; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; INNER SURFACES; INNER WALLS; INTERFACIAL AREAS; MICROPIPETTES; REFERENCE VALUES; ROUGHNESS MODELS; STEREOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS;

GLASS; PIPE; SEALING (FINISHING); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856033841     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-401     Document Type: Article

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