A comprehensive microfluidics device construction and characterization module for the advanced undergraduate analytical chemistry laboratory

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 902-907

  Piunno, Paul A E ^a   Zetina, Adrian ^a,b   Chu, Norman ^a,c   Tavares, Anthony J ^a   Noor, M Omair ^a   Petryayeva, Eleonora ^a,d   Uddayasankar, Uvaraj ^a   Veglio, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Sugar Industry Research and Development Institute   (Belize)

^c Piramal Enterprises Limited   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical Chemistry; Bioanalytical Chemistry; Electrophoresis; Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; Laboratory Instruction; Microscale Lab; Nucleic Acids DNA RNA; Separation Science; Upper Division Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902196242     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed400728a     Document Type: Article

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