Journal
MICROFLUIDICS AND NANOFLUIDICS
Volume 14, Issue 3-4, Pages 509-514Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-012-1069-5
Keywords
Microfluidics; Polymersomes; Emulsions; Microcapsules; Parallelization
Funding
- Amore-Pacific
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1006546]
- Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center [DMR-0820484]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1006546] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We report a parallelized capillary microfluidic device for enhanced production rate of monodisperse polymersomes. This device consists of four independent capillary microfluidic devices, operated in parallel; each device produces monodisperse water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) double-emulsion drops through a single-step emulsification. During generation of the double-emulsion drops, the innermost water drop is formed first and it triggers a breakup of the middle oil phase over wide range of flow rates; this enables robust and stable formation of the double-emulsion drops in all drop makers of the parallelized device. Double-emulsion drops are transformed to polymersomes through a dewetting of the amphiphile-laden middle oil phase on the surface of the innermost water drop, followed by the subsequent separation of the oil drop. Therefore, we can make polymersomes with a production rate enhanced by a factor given by the number of drop makers in the parallelized device.
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