Mechanism for flow-rate controlled breakup in confined geometries: A route to monodisperse emulsions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Garstecki, Piotr ^a   Stone, Howard A ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW BREAKUP; FLOW FOCUSING DEVICES (FFD); FLOW RATE; FLUID-FLUID INTERFACE;

CAPILLARITY; DISPERSIONS; EMULSIONS; GEOMETRY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SOLUBILITY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 18144420092     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.164501     Document Type: Article

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