Electrically initiated upstream coalescence cascade of droplets in a microfluidic flow

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Zagnoni, Michele ^a   Baroud, Charles N ^b   Cooper, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BIOLOGICAL ASSAYS; DESTABILIZATION PROCESS; DROPLET COALESCENCE; DROPLET SIZES; ELECTROCOALESCENCE; FLOW DIRECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT; LAB-ON-A-CHIP APPLICATIONS; LATERAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MICRO DROPLETS; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICROFLUIDIC FLOW; TWO PHASE; TWO PHASIS; WATER PHASE;

CELL MEMBRANES; COALESCENCE; DROP FORMATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EMULSIFICATION; PHASE SEPARATION;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 70350055025     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.046303     Document Type: Article

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