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Droplet-based microfluidics
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Modified capillary number to standardize droplet generation in suction-driven microfluidics
In droplet microfluidic devices with suction-based flow control, the microchannel geometry and suction pressure at the outlet govern the dynamic properties of the two phases that influence the droplet generation. Therefore, it is critical to understand the ...
Heidelberg2024Multiscale Porosity Microfluidics to Study Bacterial Transport in Heterogeneous Chemical Landscapes
Francesco Carrara, Jiande Zhou
Microfluidic models are proving to be powerful systems to study fundamental processes in porous media, due to their ability to replicate topologically complex environments while allowing detailed, quantitative observations at the pore scale. Yet, while por ...
Hoboken2024Improved microfluidic transcriptome based screening methods
Christoph Merten, Xiaoli Ma, Leonie Kolmar, Hongxing Hu
The invention provides microfluidic screening systems for the identification of compounds or compositions influencing cellular transcriptomes. The invention is predicated upon taking into account differences in newly synthesized mRNA in contrast to so call ...
2024Moulding and Microfluidic Wet Spinning of the Soft Polymer Optical Fibers for Sensory Applications
Polymer optical fibre (POFs) based wearable sensors have attracted a lot of attention in the field of healthcare and biomedical applications. They are in particular envision as the next generation of sensors for the continuous, real-time n ...
EPFL2024Microfluidic systems for infectious disease diagnostics
Microorganisms, encompassing both uni- and multicellular entities, exhibit remarkable diversity as omnipresent life forms in nature. They play a pivotal role by supplying essential components for sustaining biological processes across diverse ecosystems, i ...
Cambridge2024Stability of a liquid layer draining around a horizontal cylinder: Interplay of capillary and gravity forces
François Gallaire, Shahab Eghbali, Simeon Vladimirov Djambov
We study the drainage of a viscous liquid film coating the outside of a solid horizontal cylinder, where gravity acts vertically. We focus on the limit of large Ohnesorge numbers Oh, where inertia is negligible compared to viscous effects. We first study t ...
Amer Physical Soc2024Water-permeation sensor and method for making the same
Yves Leterrier, Stéphanie Lacour, Kyungjin Kim, Massimo Mariello
A water permeation sensor suitable for monitoring and quantitatively assessing ultra-low permeability of thin film encapsulations engineered for bioelectronic microdevices, its fabrication as well as device comprising the same are disclosed herein. ...
2024Quantifying mass transport limitations in a microfluidic CO2 electrolyzer with a gas diffusion cathode
Sophia Haussener, Venu Gopal Agarwal
A gas diffusion electrode (GDE) based CO2 electrolyzer shows enhanced CO2 transport to the catalyst surface, significantly increasing current density compared to traditional planar immersed electrodes. A two-dimensional model for the cathode side of a micr ...
2024Passive and Deterministic Droplet Microfluidics for Single Object Encapsulation and Pairing
The single-cell study, which dissects cell-cell heterogeneity from bulk populations, is of growing attention and importance in biological studies and clinical practices. At the core of the single-cell analysis is the efficient cell isolation and constructi ...
EPFL2023Design and construction of a microfluidics workstation for high-throughput multi-wavelength fluorescence and transmittance activated droplet analysis and sorting
Christoph Merten, Jatin Panwar, Alexis Louis Autour
Droplet microfluidics has revolutionized quantitative high-throughput bioassays and screening, especially in the field of single-cell analysis where applications include cell characterization, antibody discovery and directed evolution. However, droplet mic ...
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