Thermocoalescence of microdroplets in a microfluidic chamber

• Main Authors: Luong, Trung-Dung, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Sposito, Alex
• 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/10356/97896; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8355
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Droplet coalescence plays an important role in droplet-based microfluidics. This letter reports the phenomenon of thermocoalescence of two droplets in a chamber with a microheater. An integrated resistive sensor allows the measurement of heating temperature. The merging process was investigated at d...