Chemically induced coalescence in droplet-based microfluidics

被引：59

作者：

Akartuna, Ilke ^{[1
]}

Aubrecht, Donald M. ^{[1
]}

Kodger, Thomas E. ^{[1
]}

Weitz, David A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Engn & Appl Sci, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

来源：

LAB ON A CHIP | 2015年 / 15卷 / 04期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

ELECTROPORATION; FLOW; ELECTROCOALESCENCE; TENSION;

D O I：

10.1039/c4lc01285b

中图分类号：

Q5 [生物化学];

学科分类号：

071010 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

We present a new microfluidic method to coalesce pairs of surfactant-stabilized water-in-fluorocarbon oil droplets. We achieve this through the local addition of a poor solvent for the surfactant, perfluorobutanol, which induces cohesion between droplet interfaces causing them to merge. The efficiency of this technique is comparable to existing techniques providing an alternative method to coalesce pairs of droplets.

引用

页码：1140 / 1144

页数：5

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