| Info. | Vol.8 - No.2 (2014.06.20) |
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| Title | Dynamic Wetting in Microfluidic Droplet Formation |
| Authors | Shazia Bashir1,2,*, Xavier Casadevall i Solvas3, Muhammad Bashir4, Julia Margaret Rees1& William Bauer Jay Zimmerman4 |
| Institutions | 1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH, U.K. 2Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan 3Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, HC1 F109, ETH Zurich 4Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, U.K. |
| Abstract | The extent to which the carrier fluid wets the walls of a microchannel is crucial in the droplet formation process for segmented flow microfluidic applications and can be influenced by the use of surfactants. Surfactants dynamically modify the microchannel surface leading to stabilization of the two phase interface, affecting the droplet formation process. An experimental study of the influence of hydrophobic surfactant (Span 80) during the formation of water-inoil droplets in a T-shaped microchannel geometry is presented and the wetting properties of the microchannel walls were characterized. The range of data to be analyzed on the microscale is estimated from the macroscopic interfacial tension and contact angle measurements. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) level at the microscale was estimated by observing the trend of droplet length variation with concentration of surfactant in a microchannel. Microchannels used in this work were fabricated using softlithography methods and bonded using a custom-made plasma bonding setup that does not require an ultra high vacuum chamber and hence saves the fabrication cost. |
| Keyword | Microdroplets, Microchannel, Double emulsions, Wettability Surfactants |
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