Generation of geometrically confined droplets using microchannel arrays: Effects of channel and step structure

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 8848-8855

  Kobayashi, Isao ^a   Neves, Marcos A ^a,b   Yokota, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Uemura, Kunihiko ^a   Nakajima, Mitsutoshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CONTINUOUS PHASE; CRITICAL VALUE; DISPERSED PHASE; DROPLET SHAPE; MICROCHANNEL ARRAY; MILLI-Q WATER; MONOLAURATE; SINGLE CRYSTAL SILICON; SOYBEAN OIL; SPHERICAL DROPLETS; STEP HEIGHT; STEP STRUCTURE;

ABERRATIONS; MICROCHANNELS; PETROLEUM REFINING; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; SILICON WAFERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 70349678233     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie8018998     Document Type: Article

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