Fluidic assembly at the microscale: Progress and prospects

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 383-419

  Crane, Nathan B ^a   Onen, Onursal ^a   Carballo, Jose ^a   Ni, Qi ^a   Guldiken, Rasim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Assemblability; Assembly; Assembly theory; Bacteria swarm; Capillary; Electrostatic; Magnetic; Microfluidics; Microscale; Part directed; Self assembly; Surface tension; Tool directed

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ASSEMBLY; ELECTROSTATICS; MICROFLUIDICS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE TENSION;

ASSEMBLABILITY; CAPILLARY; MAGNETIC; MICROSCALE; PART-DIRECTED;

DIGITAL MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84878590873     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-012-1060-1     Document Type: Review

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