Issue 24, 2016
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Lab on a Chip

Recreating mineralogical petrographic heterogeneity within microfluidic chips: assembly, examples, and applications†

Stephen A. Bowden,‡a   Yukie Tanino, ORCID logo ‡*b   Blessing Akamairoa  and  Magali Christensenb  

* Corresponding authors

a Dept. Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK

b School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK
E-mail: ytanino@abdn.ac.uk

Abstract

To date, the visualisation of flow through porous media assembled in microfluidic chips was confined to mineralogically homogenous systems. Here we present a key evolution in the method that permits the investigation of mineralogically realistic rock analogues.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6LC01209D
Article type
Technical Innovation
Submitted
26 Sep 2016
Accepted
25 Oct 2016
First published
01 Nov 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Lab Chip, 2016,16, 4677-4681

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Recreating mineralogical petrographic heterogeneity within microfluidic chips: assembly, examples, and applications

S. A. Bowden, Y. Tanino, B. Akamairo and M. Christensen, Lab Chip, 2016, 16, 4677 DOI: 10.1039/C6LC01209D

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