Pushing the limits of electrical detection of ultralow flows in nanofluidic channels

Micromachines

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-148

  Mathwig, Klaus ^a   Lemay, Serge G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Electrochemical sensor; Flow detection; Nanochannel; Nanofluidics; Redox cycling

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CROSS SECTION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; CROSS-CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRICAL DETECTION; FLOW DETECTION; NANO CHANNELS; REDOX CYCLING;

ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS; FLOW RATE; NANOFLUIDICS; SENSORS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84885118017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2072666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mi4020138     Document Type: Article

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