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Reconfigurable Microfluidic Channel with Pin-discretized Sidewalls
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A new type of artificial water channels
Aleksandr Noy1,2, Meni Wanunu3
1Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. noy1@llnl.gov.
Nature Nanotechnology
|December 20, 2019
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