Continuous inertial focusing and separation of particles by shape

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Masaeli, Mahdokht ^a,b   Sollier, Elodie ^a,b   Amini, Hamed ^a,b   Mao, Wenbin ^c   Camacho, Kathryn ^d   Doshi, Nishit ^d   Mitragotri, Samir ^d   Alexeev, Alexander ^c   Di Carlo, Dino ^a,b  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPARTICLES; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; FOOD SCIENCE; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; HIGH-PURITY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; PARTICLE ROTATIONS; SHAPE BASED; SHAPED PARTICLES;

ASPECT RATIO; DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DELIVERY; SEPARATION;

SCREENING;

EID: 84870567665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031017     Document Type: Article

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