Patterning droplets with durotaxis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 12541-12544

  Style, Robert W ^a,b   Che, Yonglu ^b   Park, Su Ji ^c   Weon, Byung Mook ^d   Je, Jung Ho ^c   Hyland, Callen ^a   German, Guy K ^b   Power, Michael P ^a   Wilen, Larry A ^e   Wettlaufer, John S ^a,b,f   Dufresne, Eric R ^b,g  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^e UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Droplet control; Elasticity; Mechanosensing; Soft matter; Wetting

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CONTACT ANGLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUROTAXIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; LIQUID; LIQUID DROPLET; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DROPLET CONTROL; ELASTICITY; MECHANOSENSING; SOFT MATTER; WETTING;

CELL MOVEMENT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84881106955     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307122110     Document Type: Article

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