Advanced capillary soft valves for flow control in self-driven microfluidics

Micromachines

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Hitzbleck, Martina ^a   Delamarche, Emmanuel ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capillary system; Liquid control; Microfluidics; Stop valve

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; CAPILLARY SYSTEM; DESIGN FEATURES; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; INLET CHANNELS; LIQUID CONTROL; LIQUID SAMPLE; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; PRECISE LOCATIONS; SELF-DRIVEN; STOP VALVES; WETTING CONDITIONS; WORKING MECHANISMS;

FLUIDIC DEVICES; LIQUIDS; MICROCHANNELS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84874146199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2072666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mi4010001     Document Type: Article

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