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Applications of Acoustic Levitation in Chemical Analysis and Biochemistry

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Acoustic Levitation

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The acoustic levitation is a versatile tool that can be used to study physical, chemical, or biochemical characteristics of liquid samples. By acoustically levitating samples in single droplets, their chemical or biochemical analysis and reactions can be investigated in the container-less condition in the absence of interactions between samples and container walls in ambient air as well as in controlled environments. In this chapter, we describe experiments on the single-droplet chemical/biochemical analysis, a recently proposed application for protein crystallography experiments, and relate instrumentation developments.

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