Journal
LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 456-461Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b915596a
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
- Korea government [R01-2007-000-20072-0]
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The dynamic breakup of emulsion droplets was demonstrated in double-layered microfluidic devices equipped with designed pneumatic actuators. Uniform emulsion droplets, produced by shearing at a T-junction, were broken into smaller droplets when they passed downstream through constrictions formed by a pneumatically actuated valve in the upper control layer. The valve-assisted droplet breakup was significantly affected by the shape and layout of the control valves on the emulsion flow channel. Interestingly, by actuating the pneumatic valve immediately above the T-junction, the sizes of the emulsion droplets were controlled precisely in a programmatic manner that produced arrays of uniform emulsion droplets in various sizes and dynamic patterns.
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