Micro-drops and digital microfluidics

"After spending over 12 years developing new microsystems for biotechnology, especially concerned with the microfluidic aspects of these devices, Jean Berthier is considered a leading authority in the field. Now, following the success of his book, Microfluidics for Biotechnology, Dr. Berthier r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Berthier, Jean, 1952-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Waltham, Mass. : William Andrew, 2013.
EditionSecond edition
SeriesMicro & nano technologies.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781455728008
1455728004
9781283851572
1283851571
9781455725502
1455725501
Physical Description1 online resource (xvii, 541 pages) : illustrations (some color)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: digital microfluidics in today's microfluidics
  • Theory of wetting
  • The physics of droplets
  • Electrowetting theory
  • EWOD microsystems
  • Introduction to liquid dielectrophoresis
  • Electrowetting on curved surfaces
  • Biological applications of EWOD
  • Cell manipulations in EWD
  • Chemical applications
  • DMF for optofluidic microdevices
  • Droplet on deformable surfaces--elasto-capillarity and electro-elasto-capillarity
  • Acoustic methods for manipulating droplets
  • Introduction to droplet microfluidics and multiphase microflows
  • Epilog.