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Fabricating High-viscosity Droplets using Microfluidic Capillary Device with Phase-inversion Co-flow Structure
Published on: April 17, 2018
Kinetics and dynamics of dissolution/mixing of a high-viscosity liquid phase in a low-viscosity solvent phase
Tomasz Kalwarczyk1, Natalia Ziebacz, Stefan A Wieczorek
1Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, College of Science, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Dewajtis 5, 01-815, Warsaw, Poland.
Abstract:
We studied mixing in the initially separated binary mixture of polystyrene/5CB liquid crystal and ternary mixtures of water/surfactant C12E5/polymer PEG system. In both systems the domains of one phase were characterized by a much higher viscosity than the solvent matrix. We demonstrated experimentally that during mixing these domains decrease their size linearly with time without a visible change of the optical contrast (i.e., without a rapid change of their compositions). Computer simulations and a theoretical model explain quantitatively our experimental observations.
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