Fundamental fluid dynamics challenges in inkjet printing

D Lohse - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Inkjet printing is the most widespread technological application of microfluidics. It is
characterized by its high drop productivity, small volumes, and extreme reproducibility. This …

Nonstandard inkjets

OA Basaran, H Gao, PP Bhat - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Inkjet printers eject drops from microscopic nozzles and deposit them on substrates. For a
number of years after its initial development, inkjet printing remained a method for …

Field-free isolation of exosomes from extracellular vesicles by microfluidic viscoelastic flows

C Liu, J Guo, F Tian, N Yang, F Yan, Y Ding, JY Wei… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Exosomes, molecular cargos secreted by almost all mammalian cells, are considered as
promising biomarkers to identify many diseases including cancers. However, the small size …

Physics of liquid jets

J Eggers, E Villermaux - Reports on progress in physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Jets, ie collimated streams of matter, occur from the microscale up to the large-scale
structure of the universe. Our focus will be mostly on surface tension effects, which result …

The impact of relative humidity during electrospinning on the morphology and mechanical properties of nanofibers

J Pelipenko, J Kristl, B Janković, S Baumgartner… - International journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is an efficient and flexible method for nanofiber production, but it is
influenced by many systemic, process, and environmental parameters that govern the …

Two-phase microfluidic flows

CX Zhao, APJ Middelberg - Chemical Engineering Science, 2011 - Elsevier
Two phase systems are ubiquitous in processes and products, and in both cases
performance is maximized when precise control over the individual phases, and the …

Formation of beads-on-a-string structures during break-up of viscoelastic filaments

PP Bhat, S Appathurai, MT Harris, M Pasquali… - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
Break-up of viscoelastic filaments is pervasive in both nature and technology. If a filament is
formed by placing a drop of saliva between a thumb and forefinger and is stretched, the …

Sheathless elasto-inertial particle focusing and continuous separation in a straight rectangular microchannel

S Yang, JY Kim, SJ Lee, SS Lee, JM Kim - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Particle focusing in planar geometries is essentially required in order to develop cost-
effective lab-on-a-chips, such as cell counting and point-of-care (POC) devices. In this study …

The inertio-elastic planar entry flow of low-viscosity elastic fluids in micro-fabricated geometries

LE Rodd, TP Scott, DV Boger, JJ Cooper-White… - Journal of Non …, 2005 - Elsevier
The non-Newtonian flow of dilute aqueous polyethylene oxide (PEO) solutions through
micro-fabricated planar abrupt contraction–expansions is investigated. The small …

Extensional relaxation times of dilute, aqueous polymer solutions

J Dinic, Y Zhang, LN Jimenez, V Sharma - ACS Macro Letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
We show that visualization and analysis of capillary-driven thinning and pinch-off dynamics
of the columnar neck in an asymmetric liquid bridge created by drip**-onto-substrate can …