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ArticleBiomicrofluidics2017

Efficient extraction of oil from droplet microfluidic emulsions.

J R Haliburton, S C Kim, I C Clark, R A Sperling, D A Weitz, A R Abate

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Article in Biomicrofluidics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

J R Haliburton
S C KimDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5237-6358
I C ClarkDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.
R A SperlingDepartment of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8027-0697
D A WeitzDepartment of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6678-5208
A R Abate

Funding

Microfluidic immunoprofiling for biomarker discovery in rheumatoid arthritisDP2AR068129 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ABATE, ADAM R. · 2014 to 2014
$2.4M
Accurate and unbiased single cell sequencing with digital droplet MDAR01HG008978 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI ABATE, ADAM R. · 2016 to 2018
$1.9M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG008978NIAMS NIH HHS DP2 AR068129
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Droplet microfluidic techniques can perform large numbers of single molecule and cell reactions but often require controlled, periodic flow to merge, split, and sort droplets. Here, we describe a simple method to convert aperiodic flows into periodic ones. Using an oil extraction module, we efficiently remove oil from emulsions to readjust the droplet volume fraction, velocity, and packing, producing periodic flows. The extractor acts as a universal adaptor to connect microfluidic modules that do not operate under identical flow conditions, such as droplet generators, incubators, and merger devices.

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PMID28611871
PMCPMC5438281

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