Nanoscale surface modifications to control capillary flow characteristics in PMMA microfluidic devices

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-12

  Mukhopadhyay, Subhadeep ^a   Roy, Susanta S ^a   D'Sa, Raechelle A ^a   Mathur, Ashish ^a   Holmes, Richard J ^a   McLaughlin, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WALL; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; HOT EMBOSSING TECHNIQUE; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICRO-PILLARS; MICROFLUIDIC CHAMBERS; MICROFLUIDIC FLOW; NANO-SCALE SURFACES; PLASMA TREATMENT; STATIC CONTACT ANGLE; STATIC WATER;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTACT ANGLE; DATA VISUALIZATION; FILLING; FLUIDIC DEVICES; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TREATMENT; VISUALIZATION;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84856048212     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-411     Document Type: Article

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