Issue 18, 2009
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Lab on a Chip

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) directed droplet flow in microfluidics for PDMS devices†

Thomas Franke,*ab   Adam R. Abate,a   David A. Weitza  and  Achim Wixforthb  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
E-mail: tfranke@seas.harvard.edu
Fax: + 1 617 496 9564

b Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik I, Microfluidics group, Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstr. 1, Augsburg, Germany
E-mail: thomas.franke@physik.uni-augsburg.de
Fax: +49 821 598 3225
Tel: +49 821 598 3312

Abstract

We direct the motion of droplets in microfluidic channels using a surface acoustic wave device. This method allows individual drops to be directed along separate microchannel paths at high volume flow rates, which is useful for droplet sorting.

Graphical abstract: Surface acoustic wave (SAW) directed droplet flow in microfluidics for PDMS devices

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B906819H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
03 Apr 2009
Accepted
22 Jun 2009
First published
26 Jun 2009

Lab Chip, 2009,9, 2625-2627

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Surface acoustic wave (SAW) directed droplet flow in microfluidics for PDMS devices

T. Franke, A. R. Abate, D. A. Weitz and A. Wixforth, Lab Chip, 2009, 9, 2625 DOI: 10.1039/B906819H

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