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SUBMITTER: Sawetzki T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2629335 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20081212 51
Complex systems require their distinct components to function in a dynamic, integrated, and cooperative fashion. To accomplish this in current microfluidic networks, individual valves are often switched and pumps separately powered by using macroscopic methods such as applied external pressure. Direct manipulation and control at the single-device level, however, limits scalability, restricts portability, and hinders the development of massively parallel architectures that would take best advanta ...[more]