Controlled dispensing and mixing of pico- to nanoliter volumes using on-demand droplet-based microfluidics

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-126

  Sun, Xuefei ^a   Tang, Keqi ^a   Smith, Richard D ^a   Kelly, Ryan T ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Droplet; ESI MS detection; Lab on A chip; Mixing; Valving

Indexed keywords

DROPLET-BASED MICROFLUIDICS; ENZYMATIC DIGESTIONS; FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS; INTEGRATED PLATFORM; MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORMS; NANO-ELECTROSPRAY EMITTER; NANOELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALVING;

INTEGRATED NANOLITER SYSTEMS; IONIZATION; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING;

DROPS;

EID: 84881165519     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-012-1133-1     Document Type: Article

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