Mechanism governing separation in microfluidic pinched flow fractionation devices

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1003-1009

  Risbud, Sumedh R ^a,b   Drazer, German ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microfluidic separations; Pinched flow fractionation; Trajectory analysis

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROFLUIDICS; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE SEPARATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRAJECTORIES;

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; MICROFLUIDIC SEPARATIONS; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; PINCHED-FLOW FRACTIONATIONS; PRESSURE-DRIVEN FLOWS; SOLID-SOLID CONTACTS; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84912074002     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-014-1404-0     Document Type: Article

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