Robust and versatile ionic liquid microarrays achieved by microcontact printing

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gunawan, Christian A ^a   Ge, Mengchen ^a   Zhao, Chuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIC LIQUID;

ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CALIBRATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LAB ON A CHIP; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR SENSOR; NANOFABRICATION; PRINTING; TRANSPORT AND BINDING PHENOMENA; DIAGNOSTIC USE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

IONIC LIQUIDS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL IMAGING; PRINTING;

EID: 84899851430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4744     Document Type: Article

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