On the Quantification of Mixing in Microfluidics

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 488-491

  Hashmi, Ali ^a   Xu, Jie ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

engineering; instrumentation qualification; lab on a chip; microfluidics; microtechnology

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; FUNCTIONS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; MICROFLUIDICS;

INSTRUMENTATION QUALIFICATION; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MIXING INDEX; SEQUENCE OF IMAGES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

MIXING;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAB ON A CHIP; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MEDICAL DEVICE; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; DEVICES; FLOW KINETICS; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84907218554     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 22110690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2211068214540156     Document Type: Article

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