From chip-in-a-lab to lab-on-a-chip: a portable Coulter counter using a modular platform

Stefan Dekker1, Pelin Kubra Isgor1, Tobias Feijten1

  • 1BIOS Lab on Chip Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, Netherlands.

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