On-demand droplet loading for automated organic chemistry on digital microfluidics

Lab on a Chip

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2785-2795

  Shah, Gaurav J ^a,b,d   Ding, Huijiang ^a,b   Sadeghi, Saman ^a,b   Chen, Supin ^c   Kim, Chang Jin ^a,c   Van Dam, R Michael ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d Sofie Biosciences   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

INERT GAS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTAMINATION; ELECTROWETTING; FORCE; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIQUID; MICROFLUIDICS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESERVOIR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84881082373     PISSN: 14730197     EISSN: 14730189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3lc41363b     Document Type: Article

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