Micro-Drops and Digital Microfluidics

2. Revised Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4557-2550-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1327 g

In this 2nd edition 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.

Zielgruppe

Engineers, scientists, and developers in biotechnology, nanotechnology, MEMS, and pharmaceuticals. This book will also be an excellent text for a Masters level course in physics and biotechnology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berthier, Jean

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie Biotechnologie: Mikrotechnologie, Nanobiotechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Pharmazeutische Technologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Maschinenbau Mechatronik, Mikrosysteme (MEMS), Nanosysteme
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 EWOD
- 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