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Double Emulsion Generation Using a Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Co-axial Flow Focus Device
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Reactions in double emulsions by flow-controlled coalescence of encapsulated drops
Haosheng Chen1, Yuanjin Zhao, Jiang Li
1State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. chenhs@tsinghua.edu.cn
Lab on a Chip
|June 2, 2011
Abstract:
We demonstrate a microfluidic method to first generate double emulsion droplets containing two different inner drops, and to then control the internal coalescence of the encapsulated drops. The advantages of the core-coalescence method are illustrated by fabricating high viscosity particles and by demonstrating the dissolution of cell membranes.
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