[HTML][HTML] Emulsion characterization via microfluidic devices: A review on interfacial tension and stability to coalescence

TM Ho, A Razzaghi, A Ramachandran… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Emulsions have gained significant importance in many industries including foods,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, health care formulations, paints, polymer blends and oils …

Emulsions in porous media: From single droplet behavior to applications for oil recovery

A Perazzo, G Tomaiuolo, V Preziosi, S Guido - Advances in colloid and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Emulsions are suspensions of droplets ubiquitous in oil recovery from underground
reservoirs. Oil is typically trapped in geological porous media where emulsions are either …

Drop coalescence in technical liquid/liquid applications: A review on experimental techniques and modeling approaches

J Kamp, J Villwock, M Kraume - Reviews in Chemical Engineering, 2017 - degruyter.com
The coalescence phenomenon of drops in liquid/liquid systems is reviewed with particular
focus on its technical relevance and application. Due to the complexity of coalescence, a …

Selective droplet coalescence using microfluidic systems

L Mazutis, AD Griffiths - Lab on a Chip, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a microfluidic approach, which allows selective and controlled 1: 1, 2: 1 or 3: 1
droplet fusion. A surfactant-stabilized droplet with an interfacial surfactant coverage, Γ, of> …

Coalescence of surfactant-laden drops by phase field method

G Soligo, A Roccon, A Soldati - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose and test the validity of a modified Phase Field Method (PFM), which
is specifically developed for large scale simulations of turbulent flows with large and …

Insights into the microscale coalescence behavior of surfactant-stabilized droplets using a microfluidic hydrodynamic trap

S Narayan, I Makhnenko, DB Moravec, BG Hauser… - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Coalescence of micrometer-scale droplets is impacted by several parameters, including
droplet size, viscosities of the two phases, droplet velocity, angle of approach, as well as …

Maximum spreading and energy analysis of ellipsoidal impact droplets

X Zhang, B Ji, X Liu, S Ding, X Wu, J Min - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Droplet impacts on solid surfaces are ubiquitous in nature and industry. Before impact, the
droplet shape may be affected by gravity, shear flow, and the electric and magnetic fields …

Exploring emulsion science with microfluidics

N Bremond, J Bibette - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Emulsions have been studied for a long time because of the richness of their related
fundamental physicochemical phenomena and owing to their wide industrial applications …

Morphology development in immiscible polymer blends

R Cardinaels, P Moldenaers - Polymer Morphology: Principles …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter discusses the morphology development of immiscible binary polymer blends. It
first describes morphology development in droplet‐matrix structures, the dynamics of fibrillar …

Mimicking coalescence using a pressure-controlled dynamic thin film balance

E Chatzigiannakis, P Veenstra, D Ten Bosch… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The dynamics of thin films containing polymer solutions are studied with a pressure-
controlled thin film balance. The setup allows the control of both the magnitude and the sign …