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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Directed Assembly of Three-Dimensional Microvascular Networks
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe construction of 3-D microvascular networks enables microfluidic devices with unparallel geometric complexity. In one example, a 3-D microfluidic mixing device was demonstrated with square-spiral mixing towers isolated within the vascular network by a secondary photopatterning process. These vertical towers give rise to chaotic advection of the fluid streams and dramatic improvements in mixing relative to simple straight (1-D) and square-wave (2-D) channels while significantly reducing the device planar footprint.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Aerospace Engineering
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Therriault, Daniel
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- White, Scott R.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3111648
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85082