Scale-up of microfluidic devices
AssigneePresident and Fellows of Harvard College
InventorsDavid A. Weitz, Mark Romanowsky, Adam R. Abate
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Abstract
Parallel uses of microfluidic methods and devices for focusing and/or forming discontinuous sections of similar or dissimilar size in a fluid are described. In some aspects, the present invention relates generally to flow-focusing-type technology, and also to microfluidics, and more particularly parallel use of microfluidic systems arranged to control a dispersed phase within a dispersant, and the size, and size distribution, of a dispersed phase in a multi-phase fluid system, and systems for delivery of fluid components to multiple such devices.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- introducing a subject fluid into an inlet of a channel;
- and
- expelling separate portions of the subject fluid from a plurality of microfluidic outlets each fluidly connected to the inlet, simultaneously, while surrounding at least one of the separate portions of the subject fluid at least in part with a dispersing fluid.
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