Monodisperse double emulsions generated from a microcapillary device

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5721, 2005, Pages 537-541

  Utada, A S ^a   Lorenceau, E ^a   Link, D R ^a,b   Kaplan, P D ^c   Stone, H A ^a   Weitz, D A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DROP FORMATION; EMULSIFICATION;

CORE-SHELL GEOMETRY; DOUBLE EMULSIONS; DROPLETS; MICROCAPILLARY DEVICES;

EMULSIONS;

DISPERSION; EMULSION;

EMULSION;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DISPERSION; EMULSION; ENCAPSULATION; FLUID FLOW; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 17644415370     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109164     Document Type: Article

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