Self-triggering regime for synchronized formation of two droplets
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Dinh-Tuan, Phan
Nam-Trung, Nguyen
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2014
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This letter reports experimental results of the synchronized formation of two liquid droplets in a microfluidic device. A pair of droplets is formed periodically in a T-junction configuration with a single channel for the continuous phase and two inlets for the dispersed phase. The pair-wise droplet formation process is self-triggering, as the first droplet formed upstream triggers the breakup of the second droplet downstream. The triggered breakup happens across the different formation regimes. The effects of capillary number and flow rate ratio on the size and order of the droplets are investigated. The configuration ...
View more >This letter reports experimental results of the synchronized formation of two liquid droplets in a microfluidic device. A pair of droplets is formed periodically in a T-junction configuration with a single channel for the continuous phase and two inlets for the dispersed phase. The pair-wise droplet formation process is self-triggering, as the first droplet formed upstream triggers the breakup of the second droplet downstream. The triggered breakup happens across the different formation regimes. The effects of capillary number and flow rate ratio on the size and order of the droplets are investigated. The configuration reported here may serve as a parallel to serial sampling device for droplet-based lab-on-a-chip platforms.
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View more >This letter reports experimental results of the synchronized formation of two liquid droplets in a microfluidic device. A pair of droplets is formed periodically in a T-junction configuration with a single channel for the continuous phase and two inlets for the dispersed phase. The pair-wise droplet formation process is self-triggering, as the first droplet formed upstream triggers the breakup of the second droplet downstream. The triggered breakup happens across the different formation regimes. The effects of capillary number and flow rate ratio on the size and order of the droplets are investigated. The configuration reported here may serve as a parallel to serial sampling device for droplet-based lab-on-a-chip platforms.
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Journal Title
Applied Physics Letters
Volume
104
Issue
8
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© 2014 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters. 104 (8), 084104, 2014 and may be found at dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4866970.
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Physical sciences
Engineering
Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering not elsewhere classified