Droplet-based microfluidic device for multiple-droplet clustering

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 725-730

  Xu, Jing ^a   Ahn, Byungwook ^a   Lee, Hun ^a   Xu, Linfeng ^a   Lee, Kangsun ^a   Panchapakesan, Rajagopal ^a   Oh, Kwang W ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EXPERIMENTATION; FLOW RATE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTIPLE DROPLET CLUSTERING DEVICE; NANOFABRICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84862926201     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2lc20883k     Document Type: Article

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