Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Microfluidic fabrication of microparticles for biomedical applications

W Li, L Zhang, X Ge, B Xu, W Zhang, L Qu… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics offers exquisite control over the flows of multiple fluids in microscale,
enabling fabrication of advanced microparticles with precisely tunable structures and …

Development and future of droplet microfluidics

L Nan, H Zhang, DA Weitz, HC Shum - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past two decades, advances in droplet-based microfluidics have facilitated new
approaches to process and analyze samples with unprecedented levels of precision and …

Scaling up the throughput of microfluidic droplet-based materials synthesis: A review of recent progress and outlook

J Wu, S Yadavali, D Lee, DA Issadore - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The last two decades have witnessed tremendous progress in the development of
microfluidic chips that generate micrometer-and nanometer-scale materials. These chips …

Macroporous materials: microfluidic fabrication, functionalization and applications

B Wang, P Prinsen, H Wang, Z Bai, H Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Macroporous materials: microfluidic fabrication, functionalization and applications - Chemical
Society Reviews (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C5CS00065C Royal Society of Chemistry …

Recent progress of droplet microfluidic emulsification based synthesis of functional microparticles

F Long, Y Guo, Z Zhang, J Wang, Y Ren… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The remarkable control function over the functional material formation process enabled by
droplet microfluidic emulsification approaches can lead to the efficient and one‐step …

Precision polymer particles by flash nanoprecipitation and microfluidic droplet extraction

WN Sharratt, VE Lee, RD Priestley… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We comparatively review two versatile approaches employed in the precise formation of
polymer particles, with length scales from 10s of nm to to 100s μm, from ternary polymer (s) …

Hands-off preparation of monodisperse emulsion droplets using a poly (dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic chip for droplet digital PCR

H Tanaka, S Yamamoto, A Nakamura… - Analytical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A fully autonomous method of creating highly monodispersed emulsion droplets with a low
sample dead volume was realized using a degassed poly (dimethylsiloxane)(PDMS) …

Simple microfluidic approach to fabricate monodisperse hollow microparticles for multidrug delivery

R Vasiliauskas, D Liu, S Cito, H Zhang… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report the production of monodisperse hollow microparticles from three different
polymers, namely, pH-responsive acetylated dextran and hypromellose acetate succinate …

Polydopamine-based 3D colloidal photonic materials: structural color balls and fibers from melanin-like particles with polydopamine shell layers

M Kohri, K Yanagimoto, A Kawamura… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Nature creates beautiful structural colors, and some of these colors are produced by
nanostructural arrays of melanin. Polydopamine (PDA), an artificial black polymer produced …