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1. A.R. Abate, J.J. Agresti, D.A. Weitz, Microfluidic sorting with high-speed single-layer
membrane valves. Appl. Phys. Lett. 96(20), 203509 (2010)
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3. Ansys Inc., Ansys Fluent Theory Guide (Ansys Inc., Canonsburg, 2011), p. 794
4. M.D. Behzad, H. Seyed-Allaei, M.R. Ejtehadi, Simulation of droplet trains in microfluidic
networks. Phys. Rev. E 82(3), 037303 (2010)
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Press, Amsterdam, 2009)
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microfluidic systems. Nano Commun. Netw. 4(4), 205–215 (2013)
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13. X. Chen, C.L. Ren, A microfluidic chip integrated with droplet generation, pairing, trapping,
merging, mixing and releasing. RSC Adv. 7(27), 16738–16750 (2017)
14. X. Chen, T. Glawdel, N. Cui, C.L. Ren, Model of droplet generation in flow focusing
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(2015)
15. X. Chen, A. Brukson, C.L. Ren, A simple droplet merger design for controlled reaction
volumes. Microfluid. Nanofluid. 21(3), 34 (2017)
16. W.-L. Chou, P.-Y. Lee, C.-L. Yang, W.-Y. Huang, Y.-S. Lin, Recent advances in applications
of droplet microfluidics. Micromach. J. Micro/Nano Sci. Dev. Appl. 6(9), 1249–1271 (2015)
17. K. Churski, M. Nowacki, P.M. Korczyk, P. Garstecki, Simple modular systems for generation
of droplets on demand. Lab Chip 13(18), 3689–3697 (2013)
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20713-7
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