Microbubble agents: New directions

E Stride, T Segers, G Lajoinie, S Cherkaoui… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbubble ultrasound contrast agents have now been in use for several decades and their
safety and efficacy in a wide range of diagnostic applications have been well established …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the role of surfactant dynamics in drop microfluidics

NM Kovalchuk, MJ Simmons - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Surfactants are employed in microfluidic systems not just for drop stabilisation, but also to
study local phenomena in industrial processes. On the scale of a single drop, these include …

Bubble formation and breakup dynamics in microfluidic devices: A review

T Fu, Y Ma - Chemical Engineering Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Bubbles are always encountered for gas–liquid two-phase flow in microchannels, and have
potential applications in chemical engineering, polymer engineering, food engineering, and …

Breakup and coalescence mechanism of high-stability bubbles reinforced by dispersed particle gel particles in the pore-throat micromodel

N Sun, X Yao, J Liu, J Li, N Yang, G Zhao… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bubble breaks up and coalesces continuously during migration in reservoirs, which
determines the size distribution of bubbles. As a key parameter of foam technology, the …

Magnetowetting dynamics of sessile ferrofluid droplets: a review

R Deb, B Sarma, A Dalal - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The fascinating behavior of ferrofluids in a magnetic field has been intriguing researchers for
many years. With the advancement in digital microfluidics, ferrofluid droplets have been …

Bubbles and foams in microfluidics

A Huerre, V Miralles, MC Jullien - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics offers great tools to produce highly-controlled dispersions of gas into liquid,
from isolated bubbles to organized microfoams. Potential technological applications are …

Biomedical nanobubbles and opportunities for microfluidics

AA Paknahad, L Kerr, DA Wong, MC Kolios… - RSC advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of bulk nanobubbles in biomedicine is increasing in recent years, which is
attributable to the array of therapeutic and diagnostic tools promised by develo** bulk …

Model of droplet generation in flow focusing generators operating in the squeezing regime

X Chen, T Glawdel, N Cui, CL Ren - Microfluidics and nanofluidics, 2015 - Springer
Flow focusing generators have been widely used to generate droplets for many applications
which call for accurate physical models that describe the droplet formation process in such …

Breakup dynamics of slender droplet formation in shear-thinning fluids in flow-focusing devices

T Fu, Y Ma, HZ Li - Chemical Engineering Science, 2016 - Elsevier
This work reports the breakup dynamics for slender droplet formation in shear-thinning fluids
in flow-focusing devices consisted of respectively 600 μm and 400 μm square …

Generation of microbubbles via a tapered capillary

W Lu, EQ Li, P Gao - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a novel method for efficient production of microbubbles based on a tapered
capillary with an interiorly attached filament. When gas–liquid displacement driven by an …