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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

An unbounded approach to microfluidics using the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of viscous threads directly drawn in a bath.

Lingzhi Cai, Joel Marthelot, P-T Brun

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. Suppressing Interfacial Instability of Immiscible Liquid-in-Liquid Flow Using Magnetic Forces.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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3 authors.

Lingzhi CaiDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Joel MarthelotDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.
P-T BrunDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540; pbrun@princeton.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4175-0604

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study the droplet-forming instability of a thin jet extruded from a nozzle moving horizontally below the surface of an isoviscous immiscible fluid bath. While this interfacial instability is a classic problem in fluid mechanics, it has never been studied in the context of the deposition of a thread into a reservoir, an open-sky version of microfluidics. As the nozzle translates through the reservoir, drops may form at the nozzle (dripping) or further downstream (jetting). We first focus on rectilinear printing paths and derive a scaling law to rationalize the transition between dripping and jetting. We then leverage the flexibility of our system and study the dynamics of breakup when printing sinusoidal paths. We unravel a methodology to control both the size of the drops formed by the instability and the distance that separates them.

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3-dimensional printingarchitected soft materialinstabilityliquid inclusion

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PMID31659022
PMCPMC6859343

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