Cross stream migration of compliant capsules in microfluidic channels
An understanding of the motion of soft capsules in microchannels is useful for a number applications. This knowledge can be used to develop devices to sort biological cells based on their size and stiffness. For example, cancer cells have a different stiffness from healthy cells and thus can be read...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43669 |