A PDMS pinch valve with zero dead volume as a valving module for rigid polymer lab chips

12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences - The Proceedings of MicroTAS 2008 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1003-1005

  Browne, Andrew W ^a   Ahn, Chong H ^a  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluidic device; Pdms pinch valve; Polymer lab chip; Zero dead volume

Indexed keywords

FLUIDIC DEVICES; LABORATORIES; MICROCHANNELS;

DEAD VOLUMES; FLOW REGULATION; HYBRID POLYMERS; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; PDMS VALVES; PINCH VALVES; RIGID POLYMERS; SINGLE POLYMERS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84902513805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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