Shrunk to femtolitre: Tuning high-throughput monodisperse water-in-oil droplet arrays for ultra-small micro-reactors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Tianzhun ^a,b   Hirata, Katsuki ^c   Suzuki, Hiroaki ^b,c   Xiang, Rong ^a   Tang, Zikang ^a   Yomo, Tetsuya ^b,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPLET ARRAYS; DROPLET SIZES; HIGH-ENERGY INPUT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; IN-SITU; LONG TERM STABILITY; MICRO REACTOR; MICRO WELLS; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES; MONODISPERSE; ULTRA-SMALL; WATER DIFFUSION; WATER-IN-OIL; WELL-ALIGNED;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS;

DROP FORMATION;

EID: 84865443910     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4746754     Document Type: Article

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