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Chengfa Wang1, Yongxin Song1, Xinxiang Pan2

  • 1Department of Marine Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, P. R. China.

Electrophoresis
|February 4, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
Electroosmotic flowStraight microchannelTwo-part cylinderVortex formationZeta potential ratio

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