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Fabrication, Operation and Flow Visualization in Surface-acoustic-wave-driven Acoustic-counterflow Microfluidics
Published on: August 27, 2013
Surface acoustic wave (SAW) directed droplet flow in microfluidics for PDMS devices
Thomas Franke1, Adam R Abate, David A Weitz
1Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. tfranke@seas.harvard.edu
Lab on a Chip
|August 26, 2009
Abstract:
We direct the motion of droplets in microfluidic channels using a surface acoustic wave device. This method allows individual drops to be directed along separate microchannel paths at high volume flow rates, which is useful for droplet sorting.
