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Dielectrowetting for digital microfluidics: principle and application. A critical review

Geng et al., 2017

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Geng H
Cho S
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This review describes a relatively new wettability control mechanism, dielectrowetting, which originates from liquid dielectrophoresis (L-DEP). An L-DEP force generated by a non- homogeneous fringe electric field can be highly localized at the three-phase contact line and …
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