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Using Tubular Millifluidics as a Versatile Tool Box for The Generation of New Complex Architectures: Some Integrative Chemistry Synthetic Pathways

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Cindy HANY ,
Masatoshi TACHIBANA ,
Wilfried ENGL ,
Pascal PANIZZA  and
Ré;nal BACKOV
Cindy HANY
Affiliation:
[email protected], Rhodia/CNRS, FRE 2177, 178 Avenue A. Schweitzer, Pessac, F-33200, France
Masatoshi TACHIBANA
Affiliation:
[email protected], Rhodia/CNRS, FRE 2177, 178 Avenue A. Schweitzer, Pessac, F-33608, France
Wilfried ENGL
Affiliation:
[email protected], Rhodia/CNRS, FRE 2177, 178 Avenue A. Schweitzer, Pessac, F-33608, France
Pascal PANIZZA
Affiliation:
[email protected], GMCM, UMR CNRS 6626, Campus Beaulieu, Rennes, F-35042, France
Ré;nal BACKOV
Affiliation:
[email protected], C.R.P.P. CNRS UPR 8641, 115, Ave. Albert Schweitzer, Pessac, F-33600, France
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Abstract

We present a continuous flow scheme to produce hierarchically organized large emulsions and particles with very good control over size, shape and internal structure. By assembling together elementary co-axial flow modules and integrating their corresponding functions, modular set-ups can be designed “on demand” to engineer complex architectures in characteristic sizes ranging from 50 micrometers up to a few mm. The high potentiality of this approach stems from the continuous production of drops and the ability to manipulate and functionalize each one independently “on line”. Its great versatility is limited only by the number of combinations possible using the modular tool box and one's imagination. We illustrate this through the encapsulation of droplets or solid particles of various shapes, composition and size,in liquid or solidified drops as well as the formation of large organic or inorganic cylindrical particles.

Keywords

morphologyfluidicsfoam
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1004: Symposium P – Materials and Strategies for Lab-on-a-Chip-Biological Analysis, Microfactories, and Fluidic Assembly of Nanostructures , 2007 , 1004-P03-02
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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