Microfluidics as a tool to assess and induce emulsion destabilization

TP Santos, CM Cejas, RL Cunha - Soft matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic technology enables judicious control of the process parameters on a small
length scale, which in turn allows speeding up the destabilization of emulsion droplets …

Effect of interfacial rheology on drop coalescence in water–oil emulsion

TC Botti, A Hutin, E Quintella, MS Carvalho - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last years several studies have been conducted to understand emulsion formation
and its behavior. In some applications, the aim is the phase separation of the emulsions …

[PDF][PDF] An orthogonal dual-regulation strategy for sensitive biosensing applications

X Yang, J Wang, Z Gao, W Zhang, H Zhu… - National Science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Biosensing systems based on controllable motion behaviors of droplets have attracted
extensive attention, but still face challenges of insufficient sensitivity and uncontrollable …

Electric-field-controlled droplet sorting in a bifurcating channel

G Hao, L Li, L Wu, F Yao - Microgravity Science and Technology, 2022 - Springer
To study the electric-field-controlled droplet sorting in the microfluidic chip, an unsteady
numerical model of droplet sorting controlled by a nonuniform electric field is developed …

Local deformation and coalescence between two equal-sized droplets in a cross-focused microchannel

H Yi, T Fu, C Zhu, Y Ma - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
The local deformation and the head-on coalescence dynamics of droplets in a cross-focused
microchannel are experimentally investigated. The dynamic process of droplets after …

Monitoring and identifying pendant droplets in microbottle resonators

Z Wang, X Zhang, Q Zhang, Y Chen, Y Yang… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Optofluidic resonators are capable of characterizing various fluidic media. Here, we propose
an optofluidic microbottle resonator (OFMBR) that is applied to generate pendant droplets …

Computational Inertial Microfluidics: Optimal Design for Particle Separation

SC Saha, I Francis, T Nassir - Fluids, 2022 - mdpi.com
Following the emergence of many blood transfusion-associated diseases, novel passive cell
separation technologies, such as microfluidic devices, are increasingly designed and …

Method and device for tracking and manipulation of droplets

JM Sustarich, CC Shih, AK Singh, P Gach - US Patent 11,369,962, 2022 - Google Patents
Disclosed are devices and methods useful for confined-channel digital microfluidics that
combine high-throughput droplet generators with digital microfluidic for droplet …

Droplet coalescence in a sudden expansion microchannel

E Kadivar, Z Heidary Zarneh - Acta Mechanica, 2022 - Springer
The coalescence dynamics of two droplets flowing through the sudden expansion
microchannel is studied numerically, in this work. The integral equation of the Brinkman's …

Moving least-squares aided finite element method (MLS-FEM): A powerful means to consider simultaneously velocity and pressure discontinuities of multi-phase flow …

M Mostafaiyan, S Wießner, G Heinrich - Computers & Fluids, 2022 - Elsevier
We suggest a strategy to consider discontinuities in the two-phase flow calculations. Our
approach comprises enhancing the shape functions of the finite element method (FEM) with …