Nanofluidics and the role of nanocapillary array membranes in mass-limited chemical analysis.

Integrated microfluidic structures, comprised of three-dimensional assemblies of microfluidic channels, can effect sequentially-linked analytical operations with mass-limited samples. This three-dimensional operation is enabled by electrically-switchable nanocapillary array membranes with novel transport properties.

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