Quantitative characterization of non-contact microdispensing technologies for the sub-microliter range

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 18, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 435-446

  Bammesberger, Stefan ^a   Ernst, Andreas ^a,b   Losleben, Nadine ^a,c   Tanguy, Laurent ^a   Zengerle, Roland ^a,b,d   Koltay, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BIOFLUIDIX GMBH   (Germany)

^c ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

^d HSG IMIT Institut für Mikro und Informationstechnik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CONTAMINATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MATERIALS HANDLING; MICROTECHNOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STANDARDIZATION;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; MICROCHEMISTRY; MINIATURIZATION;

EID: 84876897102     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: 18785832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2012.12.001     Document Type: Review

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