ArticlePolymers2020
512-Channel Geometric Droplet-Splitting Microfluidic Device by Injection of Premixed Emulsion for Microsphere Production.
Article in Polymers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Blood Particulate Analogue Fluids: A Review.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Modular and Integrated Systems for Nanoparticle and Microparticle Synthesis-A Review.Biosensors · 2020Review
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Abstract
We present a 512-channel geometric droplet-splitting microfluidic device that involves the injection of a premixed emulsion for microsphere production. The presented microfluidic device was fabricated using conventional photolithography and polydimethylsiloxane casting. The fabricated microfluidic device consisted of 512 channels with 256 T-junctions in the last branch. Five hundred and twelve microdroplets with a narrow size distribution were produced from a single liquid droplet. The diameter and size distribution of prepared micro water droplets were 35.29 µm and 8.8% at 10 mL/h, respectively. Moreover, we attempted to prepare biocompatible microspheres for demonstrating the presented approach. The diameter and size distribution of the prepared poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) microspheres were 6.56 µm and 8.66% at 10 mL/h, respectively. To improve the monodispersity of the microspheres, we designed an additional post array part in the 512-channel geometric droplet-splitting microfluidic device. The monodispersity of the microdroplets prepared with the microfluidic device combined with the post array part exhibited a significant improvement.
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