Spiral microchannel with rectangular and trapezoidal cross-sections for size based particle separation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Guan, Guofeng ^a,b   Wu, Lidan ^c   Bhagat, Ali Asgar ^b   Li, Zirui ^b,d   Chen, Peter C Y ^a,b   Chao, Shuzhe ^a   Ong, Chong Jin ^a   Han, Jongyoon ^b,c,e,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^f Clearbridge BioMedics Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

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EID: 84875766414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01475     Document Type: Article

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