Microfluidics-nano-integration for synthesis and sensing

Polymers

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1278-1310

  Badilescu, Simona ^a   Packirisamy, Muthukumaran ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Microreactors; Nanocomposite materials; Nanoparticles; Polymer synthesis; Sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSING; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; HIGH QUALITY; METAL POLYMERS; MICRO REACTOR; MICRO-FLUIDIC REACTORS; MICRO-PARTICLES; MICROFLUIDIC ENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDIC SYNTHESIS; POLYMER SYNTHESIS; RECENT PROGRESS; SENSING;

CHEMICAL REACTORS; FLUID MECHANICS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84864320861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym4021278     Document Type: Review

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