Performance of multilayered fluoropolymer surface coating for DEP surface microfluidic devices

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-318

  Prakash, Ravi ^a   Kaler, Karan V I S ^a   Papageorgiou, Dimitrios P ^b   Papathanasiou, Athanasios G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fluoropolymer surface coating; Liquid dielectrophore; Surface microfluidics

Indexed keywords

AC VOLTAGE; AQUEOUS SAMPLES; CONTROLLED SIZE; DROPLET ARRAYS; ELECTRO WETTING; FLUOROPOLYMER; FLUOROPOLYMER COMPOSITES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-VOLTAGES; HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; LIQUID DIELECTROPHORESIS; LOW-VOLTAGE; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MULTI-LAYERED; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SURFACE COATINGS; VARIABLE VOLUME;

COMPOSITE COATINGS; ELECTROPHORESIS; EMULSIFICATION; LIQUIDS; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

COATINGS;

EID: 84867232365     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-012-0963-1     Document Type: Article

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