Microfluidics and Microscale Transport Processes

Title: Microfluidics and Microscale Transport Processes
Author: Suman Chakraborty
ISBN: 143989924X / 9781439899243
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 366
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2013
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks

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The advancements in micro- and nano-fabrication techniques, especially in the last couple of decades, have led research communities, over the world, to invest unprecedented levels of attention on the science and technology of micro- and nano-scale devices and the concerned applications. With an intense focus on micro- and nanotechnology from a fluidic perspective, Microfluidics and Microscale Transport Processes provides a broad review of advances in this field. A comprehensive compendium of key indicators to recent developments in some very active research topics in microscale transport processes, it supplies an optimal balance between discussions of concrete applications and development of fundamental understanding.

The chapters discuss a wide range of issues in the sub-domains of capillary transport, fluidic resistance, electrokinetics, substrate modification, rotational microfluidics, and the applications of the phenomena of these sub-domains in diverse situations ranging from non-biological to biological ones like DNA hybridization and cellular biomicrofluidics. The book also addresses a generic problem of particle transport in nanoscale colloidal suspensions and includes a chapter on Lattice-Boltzmann methods for phase-changing problems which represents a generic particle based approach that may be useful to address many microfluidic problems of interdisciplinary relevance.

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Preface

Chapter 1 : Capillary Transport in Microchannels
Chapter 2 : Fluid Friction and Heat Transfer in Microchannels
Chapter 3 : Electrokinetics in Narrow Confinements
Chapter 4 : Soft Lithography and Beyond : Some Recent Developments in Meso Patterning
Chapter 5 : Centrifugal Microfluidics : Characteristics and Possibilities
Chapter 6 : Micro Heat Pipes : From Basics to Applications
Chapter 7 : Microfluidics-Based DNA Hybridization
Chapter 8 : Cellular Biomicrofluidics : On the Effect of Microconfinement
Chapter 9 : Particle Transport in Nanoscale Colloidal Suspensions
Chapter 10 : Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Phase Changing Flows

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