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ArticleRSC advances2026

Temperature-triggered microfluidic fabrication of monodisperse organic particles

Keita Tanita, Ryuju Suzuki, Hitoshi Kasai, Mao Fukuyama, Akihide Hibara, Takayuki Ishizaka

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Article in RSC advances, 2026. 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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Keita TanitaResearch Institute for Chemical Process Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 4-2-1 Nigatake, Miyagino-ku Sendai Miyagi 983-8551 Japan t-ishizaka@aist.go.jp.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9906-6374
Ryuju SuzukiNational Institute of Technology, Sendai College 48 Nodayama, Medeshima-Shiote, Natori Miyagi 981-1239 Japan.
Hitoshi KasaiInstitute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai Miyagi 980-8577 Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9399-0506
Mao FukuyamaInstitute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai Miyagi 980-8577 Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3330-0793
Akihide HibaraDepartment of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology 2-12-1 Ookayama Meguro-ku Tokyo 152-8551 Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0258-3361
Takayuki IshizakaResearch Institute for Chemical Process Technology, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 4-2-1 Nigatake, Miyagino-ku Sendai Miyagi 983-8551 Japan t-ishizaka@aist.go.jp.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8520-9940

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Abstract

We report a microfluidic strategy for fabricating monodisperse organic particles by exploiting temperature-controlled miscibility in mixed solvents exhibiting lower critical solution temperature (LCST) behavior. In a water-diethylene glycol monohexyl ether (C6E2) system, phase separation at elevated temperatures enables controlled generation of monodisperse droplets, which subsequently reprecipitate into particles upon cooling to the miscible state. As a result, poly(vinyl alcohol) microparticles with a coefficient of variation below 9% were successfully obtained. This LCST-driven microfluidic approach offers a general platform for producing highly uniform particles from both polymeric and low-molecular-weight organic compounds.

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