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ArticleMicromachines2024

Offsetting Dense Particle Sedimentation in Microfluidic Systems.

Tochukwu Dubem Anyaduba, Jesus Rodriguez-Manzano

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Article in Micromachines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Tochukwu Dubem AnyadubaDepartment of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W12 0HS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9852-8879
Jesus Rodriguez-ManzanoDepartment of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London W12 0HS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2583-8366

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sedimentation is an undesirable phenomenon that complicates the design of microsystems that exploit dense microparticles as delivery tools, especially in biotechnological applications. It often informs the integration of continuous mixing modules, consequently impacting the system footprint, cost, and complexity. The impact of sedimentation is significantly worse in systems designed with the intent of particle metering or binary encapsulation in droplets. Circumventing this problem involves the unsatisfactory adoption of gel microparticles as an alternative. This paper presents two solutions-a hydrodynamic solution that changes the particle sedimentation trajectory relative to a flow-rate dependent resultant force, and induced hindered settling (

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beadscloud pointdense particlesdroplet microfluidicsfluid dynamicsfluid meteringfluid splittinghindered settlingmicrofluidicsphase changeRichardson–ZakisedimentationStokes lawsurfactant

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PMID39337723
PMCPMC11434299

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