Abstract
We have constructed a simple optical system to control small droplets over a wide range of sizes (30 μm −1.5 mm diameter), based on the thermal Marangoni effect. We observed droplet fusion and rapid mixing (<30 ms), and we have performed an absorption-based protein detection assay.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
K. T. Kotz, K. A. Noble, and G. W. Faris
CWS4 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 2004
K. T. Kotz, K. A. Noble, and G. W. Faris
FH11 Biomedical Topical Meeting (BIOMED) 2004
K. T. Kotz, Y. Gu, and G. W. Faris
FTuU3 Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2005