Complex fluids exist in nature and are continually engineered for specific applications
involving the addition of macromolecules to a solvent, among other means. This imparts …

Emulsions have gained significant importance in many industries including foods,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health care formulations, paints, polymer blends and oils …

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 …

Computer modeling of complex fluid flows usually presents great challenges for
conventional grid-based numerical methods. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is a …

Droplet-based microfluidic devices hold immense potential in becoming inexpensive
alternatives to existing screening platforms across life science applications, such as enzyme …

Against a backdrop of global antibiotic resistance and increasing awareness of the
importance of the human microbiota, there has been resurgent interest in the potential use of …

Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been employed to manipulate discrete fluid
volumes with immiscible phases. Creating the fluid droplets at microscale has led to a …

Microfluidics has developed into a mature field with applications across science and
engineering, having particular commercial success in molecular diagnostics, next …

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 …

Organ-on-a-chip technology tries to mimic the complexity of native tissues in vitro. Important
progress has recently been made in using this technology to study the gut with and without …