Analysis of chaos and FRET reaction in split-and-recombine microreactors

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 339-352

  Chen, Yu Tzu ^a   Fang, Wei Feng ^a   Liu, Yen Cheng ^a   Yang, Jing Tang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chaotic; FRET; Microreactor; Mixing; Split and recombine

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LAMINATING; MIXING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CHAOTIC; FRET; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; MATERIAL INTERFACES; MICRO-REACTOR; REACTION PERFORMANCE; RESONANT ENERGY TRANSFER; SPLIT-AND-RECOMBINE;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 85027956235     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0803-8     Document Type: Article

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