Drop formation in non-planar microfluidic devices

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 12, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 4263-4268

  Rotem, Assaf ^a   Abate, Adam R ^b   Utada, Andrew S ^c   Van Steijn, Volkert ^d   Weitz, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Engineering IV   (United States)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMULSION; FLOW RATE; GEOMETRY; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LAB ON A CHIP; MICROFLUIDICS; NON PLANAR MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84867305279     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2lc40546f     Document Type: Article

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