Digital microfluidics

Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 413-440

  Choi, Kihwan ^a,c   Ng, Alphonsus H C ^b,c   Fobel, Ryan ^b,c   Wheeler, Aaron R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

bioanalysis; diagnosis; dielectrophoresis; droplet; electrowetting on dielectric; proteomics

Indexed keywords

BIOANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROCESS; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS; ELECTRO-WETTING ON DIELECTRICS; FLEXIBLE DEVICE; INDIVIDUAL CONTROL; OPEN ARRAYS; PROTEOMICS; STATE OF THE ART;

DIAGNOSIS; DROPS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

DROP FORMATION;

DNA;

ANIMAL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENZYME ASSAY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; DNA; ENZYME ASSAYS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84863322478     PISSN: 19361327     EISSN: 19361335     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anchem-062011-143028     Document Type: Review

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