Chemistry: electrical and wave energy – Processes and products – Electrophoresis or electro-osmosis processes and electrolyte...
Patent
1999-08-11
2000-11-28
Warden, Jill
Chemistry: electrical and wave energy
Processes and products
Electrophoresis or electro-osmosis processes and electrolyte...
204450, 204451, 204455, 204600, 204601, 204604, 204605, 422 681, 422100, 4352872, 4352885, G01N 2726, G01N 27447
Patent
active
061530735
ABSTRACT:
The present invention generally provides microfluidic devices which incorporate improved channel and reservoir geometries, as well as methods of using these devices in the analysis, preparation, or other manipulation of fluid borne materials, to achieve higher throughputs of such materials through these devices, with lower cost, material and/or space requirements.
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Bousse Luc J.
Dubrow Robert S.
Kennedy Colin B.
Caliper Technologies Corp.
Murphy Matthew B.
Quine Jonathan Alan
Starsiak Jr. John S.
Warden Jill
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