Highly viscous fluids in pressure actuated flow focusing devices

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 140-148

  Berthier, J ^a   Le Vot, S ^a   Tiquet, P ^a   David, N ^a   Lauro, D ^a   Benhamou, P Y ^b   Rivera, F ^a  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Alginate rheology; Droplet regime; Scaling analysis; Two phase flows; Visco elastic fluids

Indexed keywords

ALGINATE CAPSULES; ALGINATE SOLUTIONS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CONCENTRATED SOLUTION; DILUTE SOLUTION; FLOW FOCUSING DEVICES; HIGHLY VISCOUS FLUIDS; JURKAT CELL; LOW VISCOSITY; MICRO DROPLETS; MICROFLUIDIC FLOW-FOCUSING DEVICES; POLYMERIC SOLUTION; SCALING ANALYSIS; SCALING RULES; VISCO-ELASTIC FLUID; VISCO-ELASTIC FLUIDS;

ALGINATE; CEMENTS; DROP FORMATION; ELASTICITY; ENCAPSULATION; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

PARALLEL FLOW;

EID: 76349104825     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sna.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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