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Nature Materials 3, 9 - 10 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1041

Microfluidics: Sorting particles with light

Jesper Glückstad1

  1. Jesper Glückstad is at the Optics and Fluid Dynamics Department, Risø National Laboratory, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark. e-mail: jesper.gluckstad@risoe.dk


Microfluidic systems have great potential to perform complex chemical and biological processing and analysis on a single disposable chip. That goal is now a step closer with the demonstration of an efficient all-optical particle sorter.

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