Separation of magnetic microparticles in segmented flow using asymmetric splitting regimes

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 91-102

  Verbruggen, Bert ^a   Tóth, Tamara ^a   Cornaglia, Matteo ^b   Puers, Robert ^a   Gijs, Martin A M ^b   Lammertyn, Jeroen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DBSF microfluidics; Droplet based segmented flow microfluidics; Lab on a chip; Magnetic separation; Supermagnetic microparticles

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DROPS; EFFICIENCY; FLUIDIC DEVICES; LAB-ON-A-CHIP; MAGNETIC SEPARATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PURIFICATION; SILICONES;

ASYMMETRIC SPLITTING; HIGH SEPARATION EFFICIENCY; MAGNETIC MICROPARTICLE; MAGNETIC MICROPARTICLES; MICRO-PARTICLES; SEGMENTED FLOW; SEPARATION CONDITION; SEPARATION EFFICIENCY;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84920705879     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-014-1409-8     Document Type: Article

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