Microfluidics is a microtechnological field dealing with the precise transport of fluids (liquids or gases) in small amounts (e.g. microliters, nanoliters or even picoliters). This book gives a survey of microfluidics: biophysical, capillary forces, computational fluid dynamics, droplet formation, electroosmosis, electrophoresis, flow simulation, fluidic network simulation, heat transfer, inertia effects, jets, laminar flow, magnetic separation, mixing, multi-physics, particle flow, solid/fluid interaction, surface effects. Specific application of microfluidics is presented: electrokinetic flow, flow measurement and micro-PIV, acoustic sensing, electrokinetic bioanalytical systems, miniaturized capillary isoelectric focusing, and polymer based microfluidics, polymer dynamics in microfluidic systems.

Useful introduction into the burgeoning field microfluidics

Inhalt
Zimmerman, W. B. J., Preface.- Styring, P., Introduction to Chemical Micro Reactors.- Styring, P., Homogeneous Solution Chemistry in Chemical Micro Reactors.- Styring, P., Heterogeneous Catalysis in Chemical Micro Reactors.- Styring, P., Recent Advances in Chemistry in Micro Reactors.- Styring, P., Soft Materials as Electromechanical Components in Chemical Micro Reactors.- MacInnes, J. M., Modelling Pressure and Electrokinetic Flow in Complex Microfluidic Devices.- Hassell, D., Zimmerman W. B. J., Microchannel Fabrication.- Rees, J. M., Zimmerman, W. B. J., Rheometry of elektrokinetic flows in microchannels.- Bottausci, F., Cardonne, C., Mezic, I., Meinhart, C., An Actively Controlled Micromixer: 3-D Aspect.- Zimmerman, W. B. J., Hewakandamby, B. N., Enhancing mass transport in liquid-liquid microfluidic flows.- Zimmerman, W. B. J., Modelling transport limited heterogeneous chemistry in microchannel reactors.- Lozano Parada, J. H., Zimmerman, W. B. J., The numerical simulation of a magnetohydrodynamic DC microdevise based on the finite element method.- Tesar, V., Introductory notes on microfluidics.- Tesar, V., Characterization of two terminal devices.- Tesar, V., Fluidic circuits.