Passive and active droplet generation with microfluidics: a review

P Zhu, L Wang - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Precise and effective control of droplet generation is critical for applications of droplet
microfluidics ranging from materials synthesis to lab-on-a-chip systems. Methods for droplet …

Droplets and bubbles in microfluidic devices

SL Anna - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Precise, tunable emulsions and foams produced in microfluidic geometries have found wide
application in biochemical analysis and materials synthesis and characterization. Superb …

Dripping, jetting and tip streaming

JM Montanero, AM Gañán-Calvo - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Dripping, jetting and tip streaming have been studied up to a certain point separately by both
fluid mechanics and microfluidics communities, the former focusing on fundamental aspects …

Generation of microbubbles with applications to industry and medicine

J Rodríguez-Rodríguez, A Sevilla… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We provide a comprehensive and systematic description of the diverse microbubble
generation methods recently developed to satisfy emerging technological, pharmaceutical …

A review on microdroplet generation in microfluidics

W Han, X Chen - Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences …, 2021 - Springer
Micro-nanofluidic technology is widely used in food safety testing, drug screening, new
material synthesis and bioengineering. Droplet microfluidic technology is an important …

Microfluidic droplet generation based on non-embedded co-flow-focusing using 3D printed nozzle

A Dewandre, J Rivero-Rodriguez, Y Vitry, B Sobac… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Most commercial microfluidic droplet generators rely on the planar flow-focusing
configuration implemented in polymer or glass chips. The planar geometry, however, suffers …

Stable production of fluid jets with vanishing diameters via tip streaming

M Rubio, JM Montanero, J Eggers… - Journal of Fluid …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We study numerically the microjetting mode obtained when a fluid is injected through a tube
submerged in a uniaxial extensional flow. The steady solution to the full nonlinear Navier …

On the hydrodynamic focusing for producing microemulsions via tip streaming

M López, MG Cabezas, JM Montanero… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
In this work we study experimentally and numerically the stability of hydrodynamic focusing
to produce microemulsions. The jetting regime was produced experimentally for the lowest …

The emerging landscape of microfluidic applications in DNA data storage

Y Luo, Z Cao, Y Liu, R Zhang, S Yang, N Wang, Q Shi… - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA has been considered a promising alternative to the current solid-state devices for
digital information storage. The past decade has witnessed tremendous progress in the field …

Fluid-mediated fabrication of complex assemblies

PT Brun - JACS Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
This Perspective accounts for recent progress in the directed control of interfacial fluid flows
harnessed to assemble architected soft materials. We are focusing on the paradigmatic …