Introduction to Microfluidics

Zusatztext Introduction to Microfluidics is likely to intrigue those interested in commercial devices who wish to peek under the covers to learn more about the fundamentals governing small-scale flows. Informationen zum Autor Dr Patrick Tabeling is CNRS Director of Research and Professor at the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. He was a Visiting Professor at UCLA (1999-2000), and won the Stichting Award in 1996. Klappentext Microfluidics is a young discipline which enables scientists and engineers to handle fluids in the biochips of the future.The book is an introduction to this discipline. It presents in simple terms the most important notions of the domain: how fluids move on the chip, conveying materials, molecules, electrical charges, and heat. Zusammenfassung Microfluidics deals with fluids flowing in miniaturized systems. It is a young discipline, which is expected to substantially expand over the next few years, stimulated by the considerable development of applications in the pharmaceutical, biomedical and chemical engineering domains. The book is an introduction to this discipline. The first chapter presents a short historical background and discusses the main perspectives of the domain, at economical and scientific levels. Then the physics of miniaturization and the fluid mechanics of microflows are discussed. In the following three chapters, dispersion, electrical and thermal phenomena in miniaturized devices are presented. A brief introduction to microfabrication techniques is given in Chap VI and the book concludes byproviding a few examples of microfluidic systems.The book is written in a simple, direct, pedagogical way; it emphasizes concepts and understanding, rather than technical detail. It offers a cross-disciplinary view of the field, embracing biological, chemical, physical and engineering perspectives. The book wil provide the reader with the concepts, methods and data they need to grasp situations which typically arise in microfluidic systems....

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Tabeling, Patrick (Ecole Superieure pour la Physique et Chimie Industrielle Tabeling, Tabeling Patrick
• Assisted by: Suelin Chen (Translation), Suelin (Dept of Physics Chen (Translation), Chen Suelin (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2010
• EAN: 9780199588169
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958816-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 246 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mechanical, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Fluids, Industrial Chemistry, Fluid mechanics, Mechanics of fluids, Physics: Fluid mechanics, Engineering: Mechanics of fluids, Industrial chemistry and chemical engineering, Chemical physics