Self-blocking valve for a highly wetting fluid based on pinning of gas entrapments

Proceedings of Conference, MicroTAS 2009 - The 13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1397-1399

  Focke, M ^a   Feuerstein, R ^a   Stumpf, F ^a   Mark, D ^a   Metz, T ^b   Zengerle, R ^a,b   Stetten, F V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b IMIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centrifugal microfluidics; Highly wetting fluids; Pinning; Valving

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGATION; MICROFLUIDICS;

BURST PRESSURES; CENTRIFUGAL MICROFLUIDICS; GAS ENTRAPMENTS; HIGHLY WETTING LIQUID; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; PINNING; VALVING; WETTING LIQUIDS;

WETTING;

EID: 84901794137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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