Droplet based microfluidics integrated with machine learning

S Srikanth, SK Dubey, A Javed, S Goel - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
Droplet based microfluidics (DBMF) has gained huge recognition in the recent years for
performing micro-reactions in droplets with high throughput, sensitivity, specificity and …

A review of liquid droplet impacting onto solid spherical particles: A physical pathway to encapsulation mechanisms

D Khojasteh, NM Kazerooni, M Marengo - Journal of industrial and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Encapsulation has received a surge of interest in the biotechnological, chemical and
pharmaceutical fields and other industrial processes, owing to numerous applications such …

Maximum spreading and rebound of a droplet impacting onto a spherical surface at low Weber numbers

A Bordbar, A Taassob, D Khojasteh, M Marengo… - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
The spreading and rebound patterns of low-viscous droplets upon impacting spherical solid
surfaces are investigated numerically. The studied cases consider a droplet impinging onto …

Slug flow in microchannels: numerical simulation and applications

A Bordbar, A Taassob, A Zarnaghsh… - Journal of industrial and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the state-of-the-art numerical techniques employed in the literature for
modeling slug flow in microchannels. The proposed solutions in literature for overcoming …

Flow regimes of polymeric fluid droplet formation in a co-flowing microfluidic device

D Pan, Y Zhang, T Zhang, B Li - Colloid and Interface Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The generation of polymeric fluid droplets via a microfluidic device with co-flowing structure
is investigated by experimental, and further the influences of outer phase flow rate as well as …

Recent advances in microdroplet techniques for single-cell protein analysis

Z Yu, J Jin, L Shui, H Chen, Y Zhu - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein is involved in almost all physiological activities of cells and it plays a vital role in cell
activity. Single-cell protein research is essential to celluar heterogeneity. As an effective …

Numerical simulation of a novel non-uniform electric field design to enhance the electrocoalescence of droplets

H Hadidi, R Kamali, MKD Manshadi - European Journal of Mechanics-B …, 2020 - Elsevier
The behavior of binary droplet collision, exposed to an external electric field is studied
numerically. Based on a fundamental understanding of the role of the electric field in the …

Optimized design of droplet micro-mixer with sinusoidal structure based on Pareto genetic algorithm

Q Yu, X Chen, X Li, D Zhang - … Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
Mixing is one of the important steps in biological and chemical reactions and assays. In this
paper, we numerically simulate the droplet generation and dynamic mixing in a double T …

Electrically modulated droplet impingement onto hydrophilic and (super) hydrophobic solid surfaces

D Khojasteh, MKD Manshadi, SM Mousavi… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2020 - Springer
Although the impact of impinging droplets on solid substrates has been widely studied, any
possible non-trivial interaction between the substrate wettability and applied electric field …

High-viscosity liquid mixing in a slug-flow micromixer: a numerical study

A Bordbar, S Kheirandish, A Taassob, R Kamali… - Journal of Flow …, 2020 - Springer
Mixing of high-viscosity liquids (eg glycerol–water solutions) is challenging and costly and
often requires employing active mixing methods. Two-phase flow micromixers have attracted …