Method of manipulating droplets in a channel
AssigneeInorevia
InventorsAmel BENDALI, Julien AUTEBERT
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of manipulating droplets in a channel area, comprising: providing a flow of carrier fluid in the channel area; providing at least one droplet of a first fluid and at least one droplet of a second fluid within the carrier fluid, the first fluid and the second fluid being immiscible with the carrier fluid; displacing the droplet of first fluid and the droplet of second fluid along the channel area, successively (a) by a flow of carrier fluid in a first direction and at a first flow rate; and (b) by a flow of carrier fluid in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and at a second flow rate different from the first flow rate.
Claims20
A method of manipulating droplets in a channel area, comprising:
- providing a flow of carrier fluid in the channel area;
- providing at least one droplet of a first fluid and at least one droplet of a second fluid within the carrier fluid, the first fluid and the second fluid being immiscible with the carrier fluid;
- displacing the droplet of first fluid and the droplet of second fluid along the channel area, successively
- (a) by a flow of carrier fluid in a first direction and at a first flow rate;
- and
- (b) by a flow of carrier fluid in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and at a second flow rate different from the first flow rate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.