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Record Nr.

UNINA9911006760103321

Autore

Berthier Jean

Titolo

Micro-drops and digital microfluidics / / Jean Berthier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Mass., : William Andrew, 2013

ISBN

1-283-85157-1

1-4557-2800-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p. ) : col. ill

Collana

Micro & nano technologies series

Disciplina

620.106

Soggetti

Atomizers

Microfluidics - Equipment and supplies

Spraying equipment

Electrostatic atomization - Methodology

Microelectromechanical systems

Drops

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Digital Microfluidics in Today's Microfluidics Theory of Wetting The Physics of Droplets Electrowetting Theory EWOD Microsystems Introduction to Liquid Dielectrophoresis Electrowetting on Curved Surfaces Biological Applications of EWOD Cell Manipulations in EWOD Chemical Applications DMF for Optofluidic Microdevices Droplet on Deformable Surfaces - Elasto-Capillarity and Electro-Elasto-Capillarity Acoustic Methods for Manipulating Droplets Introduction to Droplet Microfluidics and Multiphase Microflows Epilog

Sommario/riassunto

Explains how miniaturization techniques have expanded the area of microfluidic applications and microsystems into microdrops and digital microfluidics. This title analyses how droplets can be manipulated, handled, or transported using electric fields (electrowetting), acoustic actuation (surface acoustic waves).