Number controllable active microdroplet merging with wide range of volume for digital chemical synthesis

2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII: The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2660-2663

  Yoon, D H ^a   Numakunai, S ^a   Ito, J ^a   Fukuda, T ^b   Sekiguchi, T ^a   Shoji, S ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical Synthesis; Horizontal Pneumatic Actuators; Merging; Microdroplet; Polydimethylsiloxane

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL WIDTHS; DROPLET SIZES; FLOW CONDITION; MICRO DROPLETS; MULTIMODES; PILLAR STRUCTURE; SINGLE LAYER; TRAPPING TIME;

DROPS; MERGING; MICROSYSTEMS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE; SILICONES; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSDUCERS;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84891694912     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6627353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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