Microfluidic centrifuge based on a counterflow configuration

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 12, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 317-324

  Pertaya Braun, N ^a   Baier, T ^a   Hardt, S ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centrifuge; Microparticles; Size separation; Vortex

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTFIELD; COUNTERFLOW; CROSS-STREAM MIGRATION; EPI-FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPIES; FLOW SPEED; LAB-ON-A-CHIP SYSTEMS; LIQUID FLOW; LIQUID STREAMS; MICRO-PARTICLES; MOVING PARTS; SMALL PARTICLES; SMALL SAMPLES; VORTEX;

CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIQUIDS; MICROFLUIDICS; VORTEX FLOW;

SIZE SEPARATION;

EID: 84856213699     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0875-5     Document Type: Article

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