Fundamental and applied research in chemistry and biology benefits from opportunities
provided by droplet‐based microfluidic systems. These systems enable the miniaturization …

This paper reviews the past and recent studies on thermocapillarity in relation to
microfluidics. The role of thermocapillarity as the change of surface tension due to …

The Marangoni effect—often invoked to describe the so-called “tears of wine”—is in essence
the mass transfer along an interface between two fluids due to a gradient of the surface …

We present a unique bubble generation technique in microfluidic chips using continuous-
wave laser-induced heat and demonstrate its application by creating micro-valves and micro …

In this study, we present a microwave-based microfluidic mixer that allows rapid mixing
within individual droplets efficiently. The designed microwave mixer is a coplanar design …

Motivated by the problem of microfluidic mixing, optimal control of advective mixing in Stokes
fluid flows is considered. The velocity field is assumed to be induced by a finite set of …

Hypothesis In droplet microfluidics applications, flow control and mixing in a small volume
without any active external devices is a challenge. Vapor-mediated solutal Marangoni flows …

The development of microfluidic devices is still hindered by the lack of robust fundamental
building blocks that constitute any fluidic system. An attractive approach is optical actuation …

In the present study, a three-dimensional unsteady model is developed via coupling volume-
of-fluid (VOF) method with component transport model to investigate the droplet-based …

We describe a general methodology for introducing thorough chaotic mixing in
microdroplets. The mixing properties of fluid flows in microdroplets are governed by their …