Parallelised production of fine and calibrated emulsions by coupling flow-focusing technique and partial wetting phenomenon

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 959-966

  Cohen, Céline ^a,c   Giles, Rory ^a   Sergeyeva, Victoria ^a   Mittal, Nitesh ^a,b   Tabeling, Patrick ^e   Zerrouki, Djamal ^d   Baudry, Jean ^a   Bibette, Jérôme ^a   Bremond, Nicolas ^a  

^a ESPCI   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^d KASDI MERBAH UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

^e Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Emulsion; Microfluidics; Parallelisation; Step emulsification; Wetting

Indexed keywords

DROP FORMATION; EMULSIONS; FOCUSING; MICROFLUIDICS; OSTWALD RIPENING; WETTING; CALIBRATION;

DROPLET PRODUCTION; EMULSION DROPLETS; FLOW-FOCUSING GEOMETRY; HIGH-QUALITY MATERIALS; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES; MONODISPERSE EMULSIONS; PARALLELISATION; PARTIAL WETTING; DROP GENERATORS;

EMULSIFICATION;

EID: 84919416268     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-014-1363-5     Document Type: Article

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