Microfluidics-Based Surface Patterning Tools

One crucial and hence central step in the design, fabrication and operation of DNA chips, DNA microarrays, genosensors and further DNA-based systems described here (e.g. nanometer-sized DNA crafted beads in microfluidic networks) is the immobilization of DNA on different soHd supports. Therefore, the main focus of these two volumes is on the immobilization chemistry, considering the various aspects of the immobihzation process itself, since different types of nucleic acids, support materials, surface activation chemistries and patterning tools are of key concern. 

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