Dynamic air/liquid pockets for guiding microscale flow

oleh: Xu Hou, Jianyu Li, Alexander B. Tesler, Yuxing Yao, Miao Wang, Lingli Min, Zhizhi Sheng, Joanna Aizenberg

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2018-02-01

Deskripsi

Fouling of solid surfaces is a problem when designing microchannel systems for applications such as bioassays and drug delivery. Here Hou et al. propose a way to overcome this issue by controlling fluid flow by means of an immiscible functional liquid partly infiltrated in a porous solid matrix.