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Fabrication, Operation and Flow Visualization in Surface-acoustic-wave-driven Acoustic-counterflow Microfluidics
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Flow at the junction of two pipes: the shape of the separation surface
1Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Nature
|April 18, 1970
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