Chapter 3 Micromixing Within Microfluidic Devices3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Materials; 3.2.1 Microfluidic mixing devices; 3.2.2 Microfluidic interconnects; 3.2.3 Optical assembly; 3.2.4 Required reagents; 3.3 Experimental design and methods; 3.3.1 Passive micromixers; 3.3.2 Active micromixers; 3.3.3 Multiphase mixers; 3.4 Data acquisition, anticipated results, and interpretation; 3.4.1 Computer acquisition; 3.4.2 Performance metrics, extent of mixing, reaction monitoring; 3.5 Discussion and commentary; 3.6 Troubleshooting; 3.7 Application notes; 3.8 Summary points; References
Chapter 4 On-Chip Electrophoresis and Isoelectric Focusing Methods for Quantitative Biology4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Microfluidic electrophoresis supports quantitative biology and medicine; 4.1.2 Biomedical applications of on-chip electrophoresis; 4.2 Materials; 4.2.1 Reagents; 4.2.2 Facilities/equipment; 4.3 Methods; 4.3.1 On chip polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE); 4.3.2 Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis based isoelectric focusing; 4.3.3 Data acquisition, anticipated results, and interpretation; 4.3.4 Results and discussion; 4.4 Discussion of pitfalls; 4.5 Summary notes
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