Microfluidic vortex enhancement for on-chip sample preparation

Micromachines

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 239-251

  Haller, Anna ^a   Spittler, Andreas ^b   Brandhoff, Lukas ^c   Zirath, Helene ^d   Puchberger Enengl, Dietmar ^a   Keplinger, Franz ^a   Vellekoop, Michael J ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Microfluidic sample preparation; Microvortex enhancement; On chip human blood plasma separation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MICROFLUIDICS;

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CHANNEL EXPANSIONS; FLUORESCENT PARTICLE; HUMAN BLOOD PLASMAS; MICRO VORTEX; MICROFLUIDIC VORTEX; SAMPLE PREPARATION; SAMPLE PREPARATION PROCEDURE;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84923654457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2072666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mi6020239     Document Type: Article

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