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Laser Speeds Up Microfluidics by 20 Times

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Microfluidic systems can enable multiple rapid reactions between chemicals in fluid form. But because forces resistant to fluid flow dominate on a microscopic scale, chemicals may mix together slowly and incompletely. To increase the speed of fluid flow, researchers have used a laser to generate bubbles that burst in microseconds, driving fluid flow. Reprinted with permission of Physical Review Letters. The scientists, from the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, and from Shimadzu Europa GmbH in Duisburg, Germany, noted that the technique is noninvasive and does not...Read full article

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    Published: July 2007
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