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This chapter provides an introduction into microfluidics in general and droplet microfluidic networks in particular. It briefly reviews the state-of-the-art design process for such devices and discusses the contributions made in this book to improve it. By this, the chapter gives an overview of the book and its contributions.
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The implementation of the simulator is available at http://iic.jku.at/eda/research/microfluidics _simulation/.
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The tool can be accessed at http://iic.jku.at/eda/research/meander_designer/.
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A bypass channel [20] connects the endpoints of the two successor channels. This bypass cannot be entered by any droplet and is used to make the droplet routing only dependent on the resistances of the successors.
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Grimmer, A., Wille, R. (2020). Introduction. In: Designing Droplet Microfluidic Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20713-7_1
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