Tip-multi-breaking in capillary microfluidic devices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhu, Pingan ^a,b   Kong, Tiantian ^a,b   Kang, Zhanxiao ^a,b   Tian, Xiaowei ^a,b   Wang, Liqiu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (China)

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EID: 84935847346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11102     Document Type: Article

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