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High-performance production of monodisperse emulsions using microfabricated asymmetric through-hole array

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posted on 2012-10-12, 08:25 authored by Isao Kobayashi, Goran VladisavljevicGoran Vladisavljevic, Kunihiko Uemura, Mitsutoshi Nakajima
This paper reports high-performance production of monodisperse emulsions using numerous asymmetric through holes microfabricated on a silicon chip. Monodisperse oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions with droplet sizes of approximately 30 µm were stably produced via asymmetric through holes at high droplet generation rates up to several hundreds of thousands per second. This paper also reports three-dimensional simulation of emulsion droplet generation via an asymmetric through hole using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. The calculation results showed an excellent agreement with the experimental results and provided a better understanding of the droplet generation process.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

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  • Chemical Engineering

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KOBAYASHI, I. ... et al., 2007. High-performance production of monodisperse emulsions using microfabricated asymmetric through-hole array. IN: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, Paris, France, pp. 1541 - 1543.

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© Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS)

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2007

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This is an abstract from the Eleventh International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2007) Paris, FRANCE, 7 - 11 October 2007. The conference website is at: http://www.cbmsociety.org/conferences/microtas2007/

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9780979806407

Language

  • en

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