Jean Berthier

Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this 2e of Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics, Jean Berthier explores the fundamentals and applications of digital microfluidics, enabling engineers and scientists to design this important enabling technology into devices and harness the considerable potential of digital microfluidics in testing and data collection. This book describes the most recent developments in digital microfluidics, with a specific focus on the computational, theoretical and experimental study of microdrops. Unique in its emphasis on digital microfluidics and with diverse applications ranging from drug delivery to point-of-care diagnostic chips, organic synthesis to microreactors, Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics meets the needs of audiences across the fields of bioengineering and biotechnology, and electrical and chemical engineering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 189mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1327g
• ISBN-13: 9781455725502
• ISBN-10: 1455725501
• Artikelnr.: 36335963

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Digital Microfluidics in Today's Microfluidics
2. Theory of Wetting
3. The Physics of Droplets
4. Electrowetting Theory
5. EWOD Microsystems
6. Introduction to Liquid Dielectrophoresis
7. Electrowetting on Curved Surfaces
8. Biological Applications of EWOD
9. Cell Manipulations in EWOD
10. Chemical Applications
11. DMF for Optofluidic Microdevices
12. Droplet on Deformable Surfaces - Elasto-Capillarity and
Electro-Elasto-Capillarity
13. Acoustic Methods for Manipulating Droplets
14. Introduction to Droplet Microfluidics and Multiphase Microflows
15. Epilog