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Nature Materials 3, 847 - 849 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nmat1271
Microfluidics: Magnetic chaperones for droplets
Jillian M. Buriak1
- Jillian M. Buriak is at the National Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada e-mail: jburiak@ualberta.ca
Abstract
Iron oxide-doped photonic crystals are a simple means to wrap fluid droplets and control their movement. But they are also clever because they can be 'bar-coded' and have in-built sensing capabilities, which makes them exceptional candidates for microfluidic devices.
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Manipulation of liquid droplets using amphiphilic, magnetic one-dimensional photonic crystal chaperonesNature Materials Letter (01 Dec 2004)
