Microfluidics-enabled soft manufacture of materials with tailorable wettability

P Zhu, L Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics and wettability are interrelated and mutually reinforcing fields, experiencing
synergistic growth. Surface wettability is paramount in regulating microfluidic flows for …

Pressure-driven microfluidic droplet formation in Newtonian and shear-thinning fluids in glass flow-focusing microchannels

Q Chen, J Li, Y Song, B Chen, DM Christopher… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pressure-driven microdroplet formation was experimentally investigated in glass flow-
focusing devices using micro-imaging. The observations illustrated the effects of some …

Easy generation of droplets in a capillary inserted microchannel

F Shen, J Chen, C Li, Y Yuan, Z Liu - Industrial & Engineering …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics has received increasing attention over the past decade. This study
proposes an easy method for droplet generation in microchannels by inserting a glass …

Droplet formation in a step-emulsification microdevice: effect of fluid's viscosity

C He, X Liu, Y Dong, C Zhu, Y Ma, T Fu - Chemical Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Particle synthesis, food science and chemical reactions in microchannels often involve
highly viscous fluids. In this paper, silicone oils with viscosities of 10 mPa· s, 50 mPa· s and …

One-step on-chip microfluidic synthesis of the hybrid capsules using aqueous two-phase system

S Daradmare, JS Kim, R Ganguly, CS Lee - Frontiers in Sensors, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hydrogel capsules synthesized by conventional water-in-oil emulsion systems are the less
preferred choice for biomedical applications due to the use of oils and surfactants. An …

Three‐dimensional simulation of dripping and jetting phenomenon in a flow‐focusing geometry

S Biswas, PSG Pattader… - Asia‐Pacific Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D simulations have been achieved on a flow‐focusing geometry employing the
VOF method to study the consequence of viscosity, surface tension, wettability, and …

On Classification of Water-in-Oil and Oil-in-Water Droplet Generation Regimes in Flow-Focusing Microfluidic Devices

A Kamnerdsook, E Juntasaro… - Colloids and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The objective of this research work is to propose a phase diagram that can be used to find a
proper operating condition for generating droplets of different types. It is found that the phase …

Single T-junction formation in a flow-focusing microchannel

B Palogan, M Nooranidoost, S Bhattacharya… - Microfluidics and …, 2022 - Springer
We investigate the process behind the formation of the Single T-Junction (STJ) from
experiments in a flow-focusing, cross-junction device with hydrophilic coating with two …

Simulating Microfluidic Flow Focusing Droplet Generation Under Surface Tension, Geometric, and Adhesive Variation, and Refining Dynamic Simulated Adhesion

M Stevens - 2024 - opal.latrobe.edu.au
Simulating Microfluidic Flow Focusing Droplet Generation Under Surface Tension, Geometric,
and Adhesive Variation, and Refining Page 1 Simulating Microfluidic Flow Focusing Droplet …

An easy droplet-generation method using an inserted glass capillary into a microchannel

F Shen, C Li, Y Yuan, Z Liu - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Droplet microfluidics have received increasing attention over the last decade. This study
proposes a facile method for droplet generation in microchannels by vertically inserting a …