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Generating electric fields in PDMS microfluidic devices with salt water electrodes

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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 14, Issue 15, Pages 2605-2609

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4lc00078a

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  1. NSF CAREER Award [DBI-1253293]
  2. NIH [HG007233-01]
  3. California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
  4. Rogers Family Foundation
  5. UCSF/Sandler Foundation Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research
  6. University of California Proof of Concept Program
  7. Div Of Biological Infrastructure
  8. Direct For Biological Sciences [1253293] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Droplet merging and sorting in microfluidic devices usually rely on electric fields generated by solid metal electrodes. We show that simpler and more reliable salt water electrodes, despite their lower conductivity, can perform the same droplet manipulations at the same voltages.

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