Long-term stability of droplet production by microchannel (step) emulsification in microfluidic silicon chips with large number of terraced micro channels

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dc.contributor.authorT. Vladisavljevi, Goran
dc.contributor.authorE. Ekanem, Ekanem
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Zilin
dc.contributor.authorNauman Khalid
dc.contributor.authorKobayashi, Isao
dc.contributor.authorNakajima, Mitsutoshi
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-22T13:14:55Z
dc.date.available2019-03-22T13:14:55Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractA long-term production stability of oil-in-water emulsions by microchannel (step) emulsification was investigated using two cross flow silicon chips consisting of 540 or 1850 microchannels fabricated on 10 parallel terraces. Each terrace was 9.54 mm long and consisted of 54 channels with a depth of 5 μm and a width of 18 μm (chip 1) or 185 channels with a depth of 4 μm and a width of 8 μm (chip 2). The dispersed phase was a mixture of 2 wt% polycaprolactone (PCL) and 1 wt% poly(d,l-lactic) acid (PLA) dissolved in dichloromethane and the continuous phase was 2 wt% poly(vinyl alcohol). After solvent evaporation, the droplets were transformed into highly uniform composite polymer particles with an average diameter of 8.8 or 4.9 μm. The percentages of active channels, droplet sizes and droplet generation frequencies at individual terraces were investigated in both chips to reveal any flow maldistribution. After 6 h of production in chip 1, overall 95% of the channels produced droplets and the percentage of active channels on each terrace was at least 91%. The percentage of active channels decreased by decreasing the size of the channels. The mean droplet size varied negligibly across individual terraces over 7 h. Slightly higher droplet generation frequencies and smaller percentages of active channels were observed at central terraces. The droplet generation frequencies at the channels located close to each other were similar, indicating that droplet formation dynamics was coupled. The droplet size was not affected by the dispersed phase flow rate.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVladisavljevic, G. T., Ekanem, E. E., Zhang, Z., Khalid, N., Kobayashi, I., & Nakajima, M. (2018). Long-term stability of droplet production by microchannel (step) emulsification in microfluidic silicon chips with large number of terraced microchannels. Chemical Engineering Journal, 333, 380-391. doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2017.09.141.(Nauman Khalid (SFAS), (JCR Listed))en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/3720
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherChemical Engineering Journalen_US
dc.subjectMicrochannel emulsification, Step emulsification, Microfluidic scale up, Composite polymer microparticles, Synthetic biodegradable polymers, Poly(d,l-lactic) aciden_US
dc.titleLong-term stability of droplet production by microchannel (step) emulsification in microfluidic silicon chips with large number of terraced micro channelsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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