Teflon-coated silicon microreactors: Impact on segmented liquid-liquid multiphase flows

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 6519-6527

  Kuhn, Simon ^a   Hartman, Ryan L ^a   Sultana, Mahmooda ^a   Nagy, Kevin D ^a   Marre, Samuel ^a   Jensen, Klavs F ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR FLOWS; AXIAL DISPERSIONS; CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED EVAPORATION; FLUOROPOLYMER; LIQUID-LIQUIDS; MICRO REACTOR; MICROCHANNEL WALLS; NITROGEN GAS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; POLYMER DEPOSITION; POLYMER LAYERS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; SCREENING APPLICATION; SEGMENT SHAPE; SILICON MICROREACTORS; TEFLON AF; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; WETTING BEHAVIOR; WETTING PROPERTY;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); DISPERSIONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NITROGEN; PLASTIC COATINGS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WETTING;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 79958110756     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la2004744     Document Type: Article

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