Recursive estimation of transient inhomogeneous zeta potential in microchannel turns using velocity measurements

H M Park1, T W Kim

  • 1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. hmpark@sogang.ac.kr

Biomedical Microdevices
|September 23, 2008
PubMed

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