Dynamics of microfluidic droplets

CN Baroud, F Gallaire, R Dangla - Lab on a Chip, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review discusses the current understanding of the formation, transport, and
merging of drops in microfluidics. We focus on the physical ingredients which determine the …

Microdroplets in microfluidics: an evolving platform for discoveries in chemistry and biology

AB Theberge, F Courtois, Y Schaerli… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Microdroplets in microfluidics offer a great number of opportunities in chemical and
biological research. They provide a compartment in which species or reactions can be …

Method and apparatus for fluid dispersion

HA Stone, SL Anna, N Bontoux, DR Link… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
US7708949B2 - Method and apparatus for fluid dispersion - Google Patents US7708949B2
- Method and apparatus for fluid dispersion - Google Patents Method and apparatus for fluid …

Emulsions and techniques for formation

LY Chu, HC Shum, A Fernandez-Nieves… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
The present invention generally relates to emulsions such as multiple emulsions, and to
methods and apparatuses for making emulsions, and techniques for using the same. A …

Manipulation of droplets in microfluidic systems

CG Yang, ZR Xu, JH Wang - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
Since the start of micro total analysis systems, manipulation of droplets in a microfluidic
channel has been one of the most important branches of microfluidics. The scale of the …

Flow regime transition at high capillary numbers in a microfluidic T-junction: Viscosity contrast and geometry effect

A Gupta, R Kumar - Physics of Fluids, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Flow regimes obtained as a consequence of two immiscible fluids interacting at a T-junction
are presented for transitional to high capillary numbers and different ratios of the continuous …

Droplet dynamics passing through obstructions in confined microchannel flow

C Chung, M Lee, K Char, KH Ahn, SJ Lee - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2010 - Springer
Motivated by the previous studies (Lee et al., Lab Chip 10: 1160–1166, 2010; Link et al.,
Phys Rev Lett 92: 054503-1–054503-4, 2004), the droplet dynamics passing through …

Automated microfluidic screening assay platform based on DropLab

WB Du, M Sun, SQ Gu, Y Zhu, Q Fang - Analytical chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
This paper describes DropLab, an automated microfluidic platform for programming droplet-
based reactions and screening in the nanoliter range. DropLab can meter liquids with …

On-demand droplet release for droplet-based microfluidic system

W Wang, C Yang, YS Liu, CM Li - Lab on a Chip, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
On-demand droplet release for droplet-based microfluidic system - Lab on a Chip (RSC
Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B924929J Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF VersionPrevious …

Reliable addition of reagents into microfluidic droplets

J Sivasamy, YC Chim, TN Wong, NT Nguyen… - Microfluidics and …, 2010 - Springer
This article reports a design that reliably adds reagents into droplets by exploiting the
physics of fluid flow at a T-junction in the microchannel. An expanded section right after the T …