Effect of the Mixing Region Geometry and Collector Distance on Microbubble Formation in a Microfluidic Device Coupled with ac-dc Electric Fields

In this work, we report a significant advance in the preparation of monodisperse microbubbles using a combination of microfluidic and electric field technologies. Microbubbles have been employed in various fields such as biomedical engineering, water purification, and food engineering. Many techniqu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1999. - 35(2019), 31 vom: 06. Aug., Seite 10052-10060
1. Verfasser: Kothandaraman, Anjana (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Alfadhl, Yasir, Qureshi, Muhammad, Edirisinghe, Mohan, Ventikos, Yiannis
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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