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US 2014/0037514 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for fluid dispersion
AssigneesGoverning Council of the Univ. of Toronto, The MaRS Centre, President and Fellows of Harvard College
InventorsHoward A. Stone, Shelly L. Anna, Nathalie Bontoux, Darren Roy Link, David A. Weitz, Irina Gitlin, Eugenia Kumacheva, Piotr Garstecki, Willow R. 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.