Reconfigurable and responsive droplet-based compound micro-lenses

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Nagelberg, Sara ^a   Zarzar, Lauren D ^b,c   Nicolas, Natalie ^a   Subramanian, Kaushikaram ^d   Kalow, Julia A ^b,e   Sresht, Vishnu ^a   Blankschtein, Daniel ^a   Barbastathis, George ^a   Kreysing, Moritz ^d   Swager, Timothy M ^b   Kolle, Mathias ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCARBON; HYDROCARBON;

DROPLET; EMULSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUOROCARBON; HYDROCARBON; IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT;

ARTICLE; EMULSION; IMAGING; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID; MICRO CONTACT LENS; OPTICS; REFRACTION INDEX;

EID: 85014250679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14673     Document Type: Article

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