Particle squeezing in narrow confinements

Z Zhang, J Xu, C Drapaca - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2018 - Springer
Many lab-on-a-chip applications require processing of droplets, cells, and particles using
narrow confinements. The physics governing the process of a particle squeezing through …

Review on microbubbles and microdroplets flowing through microfluidic geometrical elements

ATS Cerdeira, JBLM Campos, JM Miranda, JDP Araújo - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Two-phase flows are found in several industrial systems/applications, including boilers and
condensers, which are used in power generation or refrigeration, steam generators, oil/gas …

Marangoni effect on the motion of a droplet covered with insoluble surfactant in a square microchannel

ZY Luo, XL Shang, BF Bai - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Despite its significance in various applications, eg, droplet microfluidics and chemical
enhanced oil recovery, the motion of surfactant-laden droplets in non-circular microchannels …

Effect of soluble surfactant on the motion of a confined droplet in a square microchannel

ZY Luo, XL Shang, BF Bai - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Surfactants are widely used in the manipulation of drop motion in microchannels, which is
commonly involved in many applications, eg, surfactant assisted oil recovery and droplet …

Transport and retention behaviors of deformable polyacrylamide microspheres in convergent–divergent microchannels

C Yao, B Liu, L Li, K Zhang, G Lei… - … Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Knowledge of the transport and retention behaviors of soft deformable particles on the
microscale is essential for the design, evaluation, and application of engineered particle …

Effect of thermal convection on thermocapillary migration of a surfactant-laden droplet in a microchannel

X Luo, ZY Luo, BF Bai - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Despite its significance in droplet-based microfluidic technologies with the use of thermal
stimuli and surfactants, coupling effects of thermal-and surfactant-induced Marangoni …

Retardation of droplet transport in confined microchannel by interfacial jamming of nanoparticles

ZY Luo, BF Bai - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Despite its significance in droplet microfluidics and enhanced oil recovery, the dynamics of
single droplets in confined microchannels still remains an unsolved fundamental problem …

Squeezing multiple soft particles into a constriction: transition to clogging

C Bielinski, O Aouane, J Harting, B Kaoui - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study numerically how multiple deformable capsules squeeze into a constriction. This
situation is largely encountered in microfluidic chips designed to manipulate living cells …

Pressure of a viscous droplet squeezing through a short circular constriction: An analytical model

Z Zhang, C Drapaca, D Gritsenko, J Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The model of a droplet squeezed through a narrow-constricted channel has many
applications in pathology, chip/filter/membrane design, drug delivery, etc. Understanding the …

Solute release from an elastic capsule flowing through a microfluidic channel constriction

ZY Luo, BF Bai - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In recent years, microfluidic channels with narrow constrictions are extensively proposed as
a new but excellent possibility for advanced delivery technologies based on either natural or …