Controlled cavitation in microfluidics
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Ed Zwaan,1 Séverine Le Gac,2 Kinko Tsuji,3 and Claus-Dieter Ohl1 Faculty of Science and Technology, Physics of Fluids, University of Twente, Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. BIOS the Lab-on-a-Chip group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Postbus 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands. Shimadzu Europa GmbH, Albert-Hahn-Strasse 6-10, D-47269 Duisburg, Germany. (Dated: February 20, 2007)
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