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US 2010/0172803 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for fluid dispersion
AssigneesPresident and Fellows of Harvard College, The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
InventorsHoward A. Stone, Shelley L. Anna, Nathalie Bontoux, Darren R. Link, David A. Weitz, Irina Gitlin, Eugenia Kumacheva, Piotr Garstecki, Willow Diluzio, George M. Whitesides
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Abstract
A microfluidic method and device for focusing and/or forming discontinuous sections of similar or dissimilar size in a fluid is provided. The device can be fabricated simply from readily-available, inexpensive material using simple techniques.
Claims20
A device comprising:
- a microfluidic interconnected region comprising an upstream portion, a downstream portion and a dimensionally-restricted section defining the downstream portion of the microfluidic interconnected region, the microfluidic interconnected region being connected at its upstream portion to two or more microfluidic channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.