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Lipid Bilayer Vesicle Generation Using Microfluidic Jetting
Published on: February 21, 2014
Liquid capillary micro/nanojets in free-jet expansion
Alfonso M Gañán-Calvo1, Daniel P DePonte, Miguel A Herrada
1Department of Aerospace Engineering and Fluid Mechanics ESI, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain. amgc@us.es
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|March 10, 2010
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