Production of polymeric nanoparticles by micromixing in a co-flow microfluidic glass capillary device

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 280, Issue , 2015, Pages 316-329

  Othman, Rahimah ^a,c   Vladisavljević, Goran T ^a   Hemaka Bandulasena, H C ^a   Nagy, Zoltan K ^a,b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PERLIS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Co flow glass capillary device; Computational fluid dynamics; Nanoparticles; Nanoprecipitation; Polycaprolactone; Polylactide

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COPOLYMERS; FLOW RATE; GLASS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIXING; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYESTERS; POLYMERIC GLASS;

BIODEGRADABLE NANOPARTICLE; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; GLASS CAPILLARIES; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; NANO PRECIPITATIONS; NANOPARTICLE TRACKING ANALYSIS; POLY LACTIDE; POLYMERIC NANOPARTICLES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84934913693     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2015.05.083     Document Type: Article

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