Production of monodispersed micron-sized bubbles at high rates in a microfluidic device

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Chen, Chuanpin ^a   Zhu, Yonggang ^a   Leech, Patrick W ^a   Manasseh, Richard ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE GENERATION; GAS JET; GAS PRESSURES; GLASS CAPILLARIES; HIGH RATE; INNER DIAMETERS; LIQUID CHANNELS; LIQUID FLOW RATES; LIQUID VISCOSITY; LOCAL LIQUID VELOCITIES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROBUBBLES; MICROCHANNEL NETWORK; MONO-DISPERSED; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE MICROCHIPS; T JUNCTIONS; THIN GLASS; ULTRA-THIN;

GLASS; JETS; MICROFLUIDICS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SILICONES; VISCOSITY;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 70349897164     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3242019     Document Type: Article

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