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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 86, Issue 18, Pages 4163-4166Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4163
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Spatiotemporal pattern formation occurs in a variety of nonequilibrium physical and chemical systems. Here we show that a microfluidic device designed to produce reverse micelles can generate complex, ordered patterns as it is continuously operated far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Flow in a microfluidic system is usually simple-viscous effects dominate and the low Reynolds number leads to laminar flow. Self-assembly of the vesicles into patterns depends on channel geometry and relative fluid pressures. enabling the production of motifs ranging from monodisperse droplets to helices and ribbons.
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