Formation of monodisperse bubbles in a microfluidic flow-focusing device

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2649-2651

  Garstecki, Piotr ^a   Gitlin, Irina ^a   Diluzio, Willow ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a   Kumacheva, Eugenia ^b   Stone, Howard A ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW FOCUSING DEVICES; MICROFLUIDICS; MONODISPERSE BUBBLES; PRESSURE VALVES;

CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; HYDROPHILICITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VISCOSITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS);

EID: 7544247824     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1796526     Document Type: Article

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