Research report 2004 - Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
The Spumo-Processor: a New Concept in Micro-Fluidics
Authors
Seemann, Ralf; Herminghaus, Stephan
Departments
Dynamik komplexer Fluide (Prof. Dr. Stephan Herminghaus)
MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen
Summary
A novel concept is presented for fluidic microprocessors, which allows to run a huge number of (bio-) chemical reactions in complex sequence on a microchip. It is based upon
the interaction of the channel geometry with the foam-like inner topology of dry emulsions