Microfluidic lagrangian trap for brownian particles: Three-dimensional focusing down to the nanoscale

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  De Santo, Ilaria ^a   D'Avino, Gaetano ^b   Romeo, Giovanni ^a   Greco, Francesco ^c   Netti, Paolo A ^a,b   Maffettone, Pier Luca ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLES; VISCOELASTICITY;

BROWNIAN PARTICLES; DILUTE POLYMER SOLUTIONS; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FOCUSING; TRAPPING EFFICIENCIES;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84951320769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.064001     Document Type: Article

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