Chemically induced coalescence in droplet-based microfluidics
Chemically induced coalescence in droplet-based microfluidics
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DOI:
10.1039/c4lc01285b
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发表时间:
2015-01-01
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6.1
通讯作者:
Weitz, David A.
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作者:
Akartuna, Ilke;Aubrecht, Donald M.;Weitz, David A.
We present a new microfluidic method to coalesce pairs of surfactant-stabilized water-in-fluorocarbon oil droplets. We achieve this through the local addition of a poor solvent for the surfactant, perfluorobutanol, which induces cohesion between droplet interfaces causing them to merge. The efficiency of this technique is comparable to existing techniques providing an alternative method to coalesce pairs of droplets.