ArticleLab on a chip2010
Droplet freezing, docking, and the exchange of immiscible phase and surfactant around frozen droplets.
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- Microfluidics for the biological analysis of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles: Perspectives and challenges.Biomicrofluidics · 2025Review
- Homogeneous Freezing of Water Using Microfluidics.Micromachines · 2021Article
- Microfluidic chambers using fluid walls for cell biology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- The study of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles via microfluidically generated droplets.Microfluidics and nanofluidics · 2018Article
- Microfluidic experiments reveal that antifreeze proteins bound to ice crystals suffice to prevent their growth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
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Abstract
This paper describes a platform for cooling microfluidic chips so as to freeze aqueous droplets flowing in oil. Using a whole-chip cooling chamber, we can control the ambient temperature surrounding a microfluidic chip and induce cooling and freezing inside the channels. When combined with a droplet generation and droplet docking chip, this platform allows for the facile freezing of droplets immobilized in resistance-based docks. Depending on the design and shape of the docks, the frozen droplets can either be trapped stably in the docks or be released because deformed non-frozen aqueous droplets turn spherical when frozen, and thus can become dislodged from the docks. Additionally, using this chamber and chip combination we are able to exchange immiscible phases and surfactants surrounding the frozen droplets. The materials and methods are inexpensive and easily accessible to microfluidics researchers, making this a simple addition to an existing microfluidic platform.
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