Reliable addition of reagents into microfluidic droplets

• Main Authors: Sivasamy Jayaprakash, Chim, Yong Cai, Wong, Teck Neng, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Yobas, Levent
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94113; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7829
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article reports a design that reliably adds reagents into droplets by exploiting the physics of fluid flow at a T-junction in the microchannel. An expanded section right after the T-junction enhances merging of a stream with a droplet, eliminates the drawbacks such as extra droplet formation an...