• DocumentCode
    3044650
  • Title

    Droplets Generation Method for Water-in-Oil State in the Polydimethylsiloxane Microchannel with Grooves

  • Author

    Kim, Jihoon ; Byun, Doyoung ; Hong, Jongin ; DeMello, Andrew J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Aerosp. Inf. Eng., Konkuk Univ., Seoul
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    25-29 Jan. 2009
  • Firstpage
    523
  • Lastpage
    526
  • Abstract
    We present a new method to generate droplets stored in cavity structures using microchannels containing grooves. We investigate the effects of flow rate and groove pitch microchannelondroplet size.
  • Keywords
    drops; microchannel flow; polymers; droplets generation method; flow rate; groove pitch; polydimethylsiloxane microchannel with grooves; water-in-oil state; Aerospace engineering; Cells (biology); Chemistry; Educational institutions; Lithography; Microchannel; Microfluidics; Petroleum; Systems biology; Water storage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 2009. MEMS 2009. IEEE 22nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sorrento
  • ISSN
    1084-6999
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2977-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1084-6999
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MEMSYS.2009.4805434
  • Filename
    4805434