Controlled multistep synthesis in a three-phase droplet reactor

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Nightingale, Adrian M ^a,b   Phillips, Thomas W ^a   Bannock, James H ^a   De Mello, John C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INERT GAS; QUANTUM DOT; REAGENT;

BIOREACTOR; CHEMICAL REACTION; DROPLET; IMMISCIBILITY; LIQUID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COLORIMETRY; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; MICROFLUIDICS; REACTOR; RELIABILITY; SYNTHESIS; VELOCITY;

EID: 84944079066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4777     Document Type: Article

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