Generation of monodisperse particles by using microfluidics: control over size, shape, and composition.

By Shengqing Xu, Z. Nie, Minseok Seo, Patrick Lewis, Eugenia Kumacheva, Howard A. Stone, Piotr Garstecki, D. Weibel, I. Gitlin, George M. Whitesides. Angewandte Chemie, 2005

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