Numerical simulations of the second-order electrokinetic bias observed with the gated injection mode in chips

Maximilien Blas1, Nathalie Delaunay, Rosaria Ferrigno

  • 1Laboratoire des Sciences Analytiques, UMR 5180 CNRS - Université Lyon I, Villeurbanne cedex, France.

Electrophoresis
|July 31, 2007
PubMed

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