Continuous-flow in-droplet magnetic particle separation in a droplet-based microfluidic platform

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 613-623

  Lee, Hun ^a   Xu, Linfeng ^a   Ahn, Byungwook ^a   Lee, Kangsun ^a   Oh, Kwang W ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Droplet merging; Droplet splitting; Magnetic bead assay; Magnetic field; Magnetic particle manipulation

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW; DROPLET GENERATION; DROPLET-BASED MICROFLUIDICS; ELECTROCOALESCENCE; MAGNETIC BEAD ASSAY; MAGNETIC BEADS; MAGNETIC PARTICLE; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SMALL SAMPLES;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DROPS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROFLUIDICS; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; PROTEINS;

MAGNETIC BUBBLES;

EID: 84871790534     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-012-0978-7     Document Type: Article

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