High-throughput sorting of drops in microfluidic chips using electric capacitance

Biomicrofluidics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Pit, Arjen M ^a   de Ruiter, Rielle ^a   Kumar, Anand ^a   Wijnperlé, Daniel ^a   Duits, Michél H G ^a   Mugele, Frieder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSTATIC FORCE; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CO-PLANAR ELECTRODES; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; ELECTROSTATIC SORTERS; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCES; PHOSPHATE-BUFFERED SALINES; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; THIN DIELECTRIC LAYER;

DROPS;

EID: 84939453683     PISSN: 19321058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4928452     Document Type: Article

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