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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 88, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2164393
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We demonstrate that high dispersed phase volume fraction emulsions (i.e., gel emulsions) can be prepared in situ for microfluidic applications. Previously, the production of gel-like emulsions in microfluidic devices, where the droplet size is less than the length-scale of the channel, required multistep splitting of larger droplets in a branched microchannel network. Instead, we employ an abrupt change in the aspect ratio of a single microchannel to rapidly destabilize a confined coflowing stream, forming highly monodisperse droplets (coefficient of variance < 1.5%). Using this emulsification mechanism, gel emulsions can be prepared in a single production step.
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