Microfluidic colloid filtration

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Linkhorst, John ^a   Beckmann, Torsten ^a   Go, Dennis ^b   Kuehne, Alexander J C ^b   Wessling, Matthias ^a,b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR INTERACTIVE MATERIALS   (Germany)

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EID: 84959491316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22376     Document Type: Article

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