In soft matter consisting of many deformable objects, object shapes often carry important
information about local forces and their interactions with the local environment, and can be …

In this paper, we numerically investigate the breakup dynamics of droplets in an emulsion
flowing in a tapered microchannel with a narrow constriction. The mesoscale approach for …

Droplet microfluidics, in which microdroplets serve as individual reactors, has enabled a
wide range of high-throughput biochemical processes. Unlike solid wells typically used in …

When granular materials, colloidal suspensions, and even animals and crowds exit through
a narrow outlet, clogs can form spontaneously when multiple particles or entities attempt to …

This paper reports the effect of the droplet volume fraction on the breakup of droplets within
an emulsion flowing as a two-dimensional monolayer through a tapered microchannel into a …

We combine theory, numerical simulation, and experiments to investigate the breakup of two
identical droplets entering a Y-junction with controlled spatial offset by which the second …

A multipole-accelerated 3D boundary-integral algorithm is developed to model pressure-
driven flow of a highly-concentrated emulsion of many deformable drops through a periodic …

In this work, we numerically investigate the deformation and breakup of a droplet flowing
along the centerline of a microfluidic non-orthogonal intersection junction. The relevant …

This book chapter describes the use of droplet microfluidics to phenotype single cells. The
basic process flow includes the encapsulation of single cells with a specific probe into …

Droplet microfluidics, which uses microdroplets suspended in a carrier oil as individual
biochemical reactors, has enabled massive parallelization of reactions with sub-nanoliter …