Factory-on-a-chip: scaling-up droplet microfluidics for large-scale materials synthesis
Note: Please email Mini Thomas, minit@princeton.edu, for meeting password. Taking advantage of the precise control over the fluid flows in microchannels, droplet microfluidics has enjoyed a tremendous success in enabling synthesis of highly uniform and uniquely structured liquid droplets and gas bubbles. Although some successes in translating microfluidic-based assays and diagnostics to commercial technologies have been achieved, few examples of such translations in the domain of materials manufacturing based on microfluidics have been accomplished, largely due to the very low throughput of dr...