Education: a microfluidic platform for university-level analytical chemistry laboratories.

@article{Greener2012EducationAM,
  title={Education: a microfluidic platform for university-level analytical chemistry laboratories.},
  author={Jesse Greener and Ethan Tumarkin and Michael Debono and Andrew P. Dicks and Eugenia Kumacheva},
  journal={Lab on a chip},
  year={2012},
  volume={12 4},
  pages={
          696-701
        }
}
We demonstrate continuous flow acid-base titration reactions as an educational microfluidic platform for undergraduate and graduate analytical chemistry courses. A series of equations were developed for controlling and predicting the results of acid-base neutralisation reactions conducted in a microfluidic format, including the combinations of (i) a strong base and a strong acid, (ii) a strong base and a weak acid, and (iii) a strong base and a multiprotic acid. Microfluidic titrations yielded… 
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