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 …

Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale

TM Squires, SR Quake - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
Microfabricated integrated circuits revolutionized computation by vastly reducing the space,
labor, and time required for calculations. Microfluidic systems hold similar promise for the …

Reactions in droplets in microfluidic channels

H Song, DL Chen, RF Ismagilov - … chemie international edition, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Fundamental and applied research in chemistry and biology benefits from opportunities
provided by droplet‐based microfluidic systems. These systems enable the miniaturization …

Colloidal assembly: the road from particles to colloidal molecules and crystals

F Li, DP Josephson, A Stein - … Chemie International Edition, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal particles may be considered as building blocks for materials, just like atoms are the
bricks of molecules, macromolecules, and crystals. Periodic arrays of colloids (colloidal …

Porous polymer particles—A comprehensive guide to synthesis, characterization, functionalization and applications

MT Gokmen, FE Du Prez - Progress in polymer science, 2012 - Elsevier
This review is written to fulfill the need of a comprehensive guide for the manufacture of
porous polymer particles. The synthesis section discusses and for the first time compares …

ZnO: material, physics and applications

C Klingshirn - ChemPhysChem, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
ZnO is presently experiencing a research boom with more than 2000 ZnO‐related
publications in 2005. This phenomenon is triggered, for example, by hope to use ZnO as a …

Monodisperse cylindrical micelles by crystallization-driven living self-assembly

JB Gilroy, T Gädt, GR Whittell, L Chabanne… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Non-spherical nanostructures derived from soft matter and with uniform size—that is,
monodisperse materials—are of particular utility and interest, but are very rare outside the …

Industrial lab-on-a-chip: Design, applications and scale-up for drug discovery and delivery

GT Vladisavljević, N Khalid, MA Neves… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2013 - Elsevier
Microfluidics is an emerging and promising interdisciplinary technology which offers
powerful platforms for precise production of novel functional materials (eg, emulsion …

Production of uniform droplets using membrane, microchannel and microfluidic emulsification devices

GT Vladisavljević, I Kobayashi, M Nakajima - Microfluidics and …, 2012 - Springer
This review provides an overview of major microengineering emulsification techniques for
production of monodispersed droplets. The main emphasis has been put on membrane …

Controlled production of monodisperse double emulsions by two-step droplet breakup in microfluidic devices

S Okushima, T Nisisako, T Torii, T Higuchi - Langmuir, 2004 - ACS Publications
A microfluidic device having both hydrophobic and hydrophilic components is exploited for
production of multiple-phase emulsions. For producing water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) …