Inertio-elastic focusing of bioparticles in microchannels at high throughput

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lim, Eugene J ^a,b   Ober, Thomas J ^c   Edd, Jon F ^a   Desai, Salil P ^a   Neal, Douglas ^d   Bong, Ki Wan ^a,e   Doyle, Patrick S ^c   McKinley, Gareth H ^c   Toner, Mehmet ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d LAVISION GMBH   (Germany)

^e Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROGEL; MICROSPHERE; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCE;

GEL; HYDRODYNAMICS; INERTIA; MAMMAL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRADATION; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGEL; LAMINAR FLOW; MAMMAL CELL; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR RATE; SIMULATION; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; CELLS; CHEMISTRY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGELS; MICROCHEMISTRY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSPHERES; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCES;

EID: 84902797821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5120     Document Type: Article

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