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Microfluidic fabrication and applications of microgels and hybrid microgels

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posted on 2023-02-06, 08:56 authored by Zahoor H Farooqi, Goran VladisavljevicGoran Vladisavljevic, Nicole Pamme, Arooj Fatima, Robina Begum, Ahmad Irfan, Minjun Chen

Smart microgels have gained much attention because of their wide range of applications in the field of biomedical, environmental, nanotechnological and catalysis sciences. Most of the applications of microgels are strongly affected by their morphology, size and size distribution. Various methodologies have been adopted to obtain polymer microgel particles. Droplet microfluidic techniques have been widely reported for the fabrication of highly monodisperse microgel particles to be used for various applications. Monodisperse microgel particles of required size and morphology can be achieved via droplet microfluidic techniques by simple polymerization of monomers in the presence of suitable crosslinker or by gelation of high molecular weight polymers. This report gives recent research progress in fabrication, characterization, properties and applications of microgel particles synthesized by microfluidic methods.

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The Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund under Developing World Scholarship (21/600504/01) at Loughborough University, UK

King Khalid University (KKU) through research groups program under grant number R.G.P.1/36/43

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© Taylor & Francis

Publisher statement

This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry. Zahoor H. Farooqi, Goran T. Vladisavljević, Nicole Pamme, Arooj Fatima, Robina Begum, Ahmad Irfan & Minjun Chen (2023) Microfluidic Fabrication and Applications of Microgels and Hybrid Microgels, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry, DOI: 10.1080/10408347.2023.2177097. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Acceptance date

2023-02-02

Publication date

2023-02-09

Copyright date

2023

ISSN

1040-8347

eISSN

1547-6510

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Goran Vladisavljevic. Deposit date: 2 February 2023

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