Electrically initiated upstream coalescence cascade of droplets in a microfluidic flow
Zagnoni, Michele and Baroud, Charles N and Cooper, Jonathan M (2009) Electrically initiated upstream coalescence cascade of droplets in a microfluidic flow. Physical Review E, 80 (4). 046303. ISSN 2470-0053 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.046303)
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Two phase microfluidic systems creating size-controlled microdroplets have recently emerged as powerful tools to achieve liquid compartmentalization for high throughput chemical and biological assays. Emulsion electrocoalescence is a destabilization process that can be used in droplet-based platforms for water phase separation to enable lab-on-a-chip applications in biotechnology, including particle or cell recovery. In this paper, we report upon a series of phenomena associated with electrocoalescence of water microdroplet-in-oil populations in microfluidics. In our experiments, we formed microdroplets whose size and dispersion in the channel were varied according to the ratio of the flow rates of the two phases. Different types of electrocoalescence between droplets were obtained. For low applied voltages, drops merged in pairs over the electrode region; for higher values of the applied voltage, a cascade of droplet coalescence was produced against the flow direction, for a range of droplet sizes, lateral distributions of droplets in the channel and localized electric fields.
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Item type: Article ID code: 29022 Dates: DateEvent2 October 2009PublishedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 28 Mar 2011 13:51 Last modified: 09 Aug 2024 19:35 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/29022