Industrial lab-on-a-chip: Design, applications and scale-up for drug discovery and delivery

GT Vladisavljević, N Khalid, MA Neves… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2013 - Elsevier
Microfluidics is an emerging and promising interdisciplinary technology which offers
powerful platforms for precise production of novel functional materials (eg, emulsion …

Production of uniform droplets using membrane, microchannel and microfluidic emulsification devices

GT Vladisavljević, I Kobayashi, M Nakajima - Microfluidics and …, 2012 - Springer
This review provides an overview of major microengineering emulsification techniques for
production of monodispersed droplets. The main emphasis has been put on membrane …

Robust scalable high throughput production of monodisperse drops

E Amstad, M Chemama, M Eggersdorfer, LR Arriaga… - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Monodisperse drops with diameters between 20 μm and 200 μm can be used to produce
particles or capsules for many applications such as for cosmetics, food, and biotechnology …

Droplet microfluidics for food and nutrition applications

K Schroen, C Berton-Carabin, D Renard, M Marquis… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Droplet microfluidics revolutionizes the way experiments and analyses are conducted in
many fields of science, based on decades of basic research. Applied sciences are also …

Droplet microfluidics in (bio) chemical analysis

EY Basova, F Foret - Analyst, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics may soon change the paradigm of performing chemical analyses and
related instrumentation. It can improve not only the analysis scale, possibility for sensitivity …

The importance of interfacial tension in emulsification: Connecting scaling relations used in large scale preparation with microfluidic measurement methods

K Schroën, J de Ruiter, C Berton-Carabin - ChemEngineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper starts with short descriptions of emulsion preparation methods used at large and
smaller scales. We give scaling relations as they are generally used, and focus on the …

Why and how to prepare biodegradable, monodispersed, polymeric microparticles in the field of pharmacy?

VT Tran, JP Benoît, MC Venier-Julienne - International journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Drug delivery via biodegradable microparticles benefits from both the protection of the
encapsulated drug from hazardous conditions and the controlled release of the …

Stability, microstructural and rheological properties of complex prebiotic emulsion stabilized by sodium caseinate with inulin and konjac glucomannan

W Xu, Y Xiong, Z Li, D Luo, Z Wang, Y Sun, BR Shah - Food Hydrocolloids, 2020 - Elsevier
The effects of inulin and konjac glucomannan (KGM) on the physical stability, rheological
properties, and microstructure of prebiotic oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by sodium …

Step emulsification in microfluidic droplet generation: mechanisms and structures

Z Shi, X Lai, C Sun, X Zhang, L Zhang, Z Pu… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The droplet-based microfluidic techniques have been applied widely in functional material
synthesis and biomedical information measurements, wherein step emulsification as an …

Formation of liquid–liquid slug flow in a microfluidic T‐junction: Effects of fluid properties and leakage flow

C Yao, Y Liu, C Xu, S Zhao, G Chen - AIChE Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Characteristics of liquid–liquid slug flow are investigated in a microchannel with focus on the
leakage flow that bypasses droplets through channel gutters. The results show that the …