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Recent developments in scale-up of microfluidic emulsion generation via parallelization
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, U.S.A., USA 2Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, U.S.A., USA 3Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, U.S.A., USA
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, June 2016, 33(6), 1757-1766(10), 10.1007/s11814-016-0041-6
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Abstract
Microfluidics affords precise control over the flow of multiphasic fluids in micron-scale channels. By manipulating the viscous and surface tension forces present in multiphasic flows in microfluidic channels, it is possible to produce highly uniform emulsion droplets one at a time. Monodisperse droplets generated based on microfluidics are useful templates for producing uniform microcapsules and microparticles for encapsulation and delivery of active ingredients as well as living cells. Also, droplet microfluidics have been extensively exploited as a means to enable highthroughput biological screening and assays. Despite the promise droplet-based microfluidics hold for a wide range of applications, low production rate (<<10mL/hour) of emulsion droplets has been a major hindrance to widespread utilization at the industrial and commercial scale. Several reports have recently shown that one way to overcome this challenge and enable mass production of microfluidic droplets is to parallelize droplet generation, by incorporating a large number of droplet generation units (N>>100) and networks of fluid channels that distribute fluid to each of these generators onto a single chip. To parallelize droplet generation and, at the same time, maintain high uniformity of emulsion droplets, several considerations have to be made including the design of channel geometries to ensure even distribution of fluids to each droplet generator, methods for large-scale and uniform fabrication of microchannels, device materials for mechanically robust operation to withstand high-pressure injection, and development of commercially feasible fabrication techniques for three-dimensional microfluidic devices. We highlight some of the recent advances in the mass production of highly uniform microfluidics droplets via parallelization and discuss outstanding issues.
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