Microfluidic fabrication and micromechanics of permeable and impermeable elastomeric microbubbles

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3489-3493

  Duncanson, Wynter J ^a,b   Kodger, Thomas E ^a   Babaee, Sahab ^a   Gonzalez, Grant ^a   Weitz, David A ^a   Bertoldi, Katia ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POROUS MATERIALS; SILICONES;

APPLIED FORCES; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DROPLET MICROFLUIDICS; EXPONENTIAL INCREASE; LOCAL PRESSURES; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; MONO-DISPERSE; SHELL PERMEABILITY;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84925437231     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la504843p     Document Type: Article

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