Generation characteristics of highly uniform nonspherical droplets of soybean oil using microchannel array devices

Food Biophysics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 132-139

  Kobayashi, Isao ^a   Uemura, Kunihiko ^a   Nakajima, Mitsutoshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Droplet generation; Microchannel array; Nonspherical droplet; Oil in water droplet; Rectangular microchannel; Uniform droplets

Indexed keywords

DISCOIDAE; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 43749110265     PISSN: 15571858     EISSN: 15571866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11483-008-9055-x     Document Type: Article

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