Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Flow invariant droplet formation for stable parallel microreactors

  • Carson T. Riche,
  • Emily J. Roberts,
  • Malancha Gupta,
  • Richard L. Brutchey,
  • Noah Malmstadt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10780
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Microfluidic reactors offer cheap and simple solutions for nanoparticle synthesis, but suffer from the variation in particle size due to flow fluctuations. Riche et al. fabricate a device that is robust over a large range of flow rates and enables consistent particle synthesis in parallel operation.