Nonlinear phenomena in microfluidics

S Battat, DA Weitz, GM Whitesides - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
This review focuses on experimental work on nonlinear phenomena in microfluidics, which
for the most part are phenomena for which the velocity of a fluid flowing through a …

Advanced microfluidic devices for fabricating multi‐structural hydrogel microsphere

Z Chen, Z Lv, Z Zhang, DA Weitz, H Zhang… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogel microspheres are a novel functional material, arousing much attention in various
fields. Microfluidics, a technology that controls and manipulates fluids at the micron scale …

DropTrack—Automatic droplet tracking with YOLOv5 and DeepSORT for microfluidic applications

M Durve, A Tiribocchi, F Bonaccorso, A Montessori… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Deep neural networks are rapidly emerging as data analysis tools, often outperforming the
conventional techniques used in complex microfluidic systems. One fundamental analysis …

Anchoring effect of an obstacle in the silo unclogging process

R Caitano, A Garcimartín, I Zuriguel - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
Contrary to the proven beneficial role that placing an obstacle above a silo exit has in
clogging prevention, we demonstrate that, when the system is gently shaken, this passive …

Hopper flows of deformable particles

Y Cheng, JD Treado, BF Lonial, P Habdas, ER Weeks… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Numerous experimental and computational studies show that continuous hopper flows of
granular materials obey the Beverloo equation that relates the volume flow rate Q and the …

Collective behavior of crowded drops in microfluidic systems

Y Gai, A Montessori, S Succi, SKY Tang - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
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 …

A fully-integrated lattice Boltzmann method for fluid–structure interaction

Y Sun, CH Rycroft - Journal of Computational Physics, 2025 - Elsevier
We present a fully-integrated lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for fluid–structure interaction
(FSI) simulations that efficiently models deformable solids in complex suspensions and …

Dynamic breakup of Janus droplet in a bifurcating microchannel

H Wang, S Wang, Y Mu, Q Han, Y Cheng - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
Droplet breakup is frequently observed in natural and industrial processes and has been
considered as a promising approach for increasing productivity and adjusting droplet size in …

Bubble breakup in viscous liquids at a microfluidic T-junction

H Zhu, J Feng, Z Xu, C Zhu, Y Ma, W Xu, B Sun… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bubble breakup at T-junction microchannels is the basis for the numbering-up of gas-liquid
two-phase flow in parallelized microchannels. This article presents the bubble breakup in …

Revolutionizing targeting precision: microfluidics-enabled smart microcapsules for tailored delivery and controlled release

L Ren, S Liu, J Zhong, L Zhang - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
As promising delivery systems, smart microcapsules have garnered significant attention
owing to their targeted delivery loaded with diverse active materials. By precisely …