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Recent advances in the production of controllable multiple emulsions using microfabricated devices
journal contribution
posted on 2016-01-14, 11:20 authored by Goran VladisavljevicGoran VladisavljevicThis review focuses on recent developments in the fabrication of multiple emulsions in micro-scale systems such as membranes, microchannel array, and microfluidic emulsification devices. Membrane and microchannel emulsification offer great potential to manufacture multiple emulsions with uniform drop sizes and high encapsulation efficiency of encapsulated active materials. Meanwhile, microfluidic devices enable an unprecedented level of control over the number, size, and type of internal droplets at each hierarchical level but suffer from low production scale. Microfluidic methods can be used to generate high-order multiple emulsions (triple, quadruple, and quintuple), non-spherical (discoidal and rod-like) drops, and asymmetric drops such as Janus and ternary drops with two or three distinct surface regions. Multiple emulsion droplets generated in microfabricated devices can be used as templates for vesicles like polymersomes, liposomes, and colloidosomes with multiple inner compartments for simultaneous encapsulation and release of incompatible active materials or reactants.
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Chemical Engineering
Published in
ParticuologyVolume
21Pages
1-17Citation
VLADISAVLJEVIC, G.T., 2016. Recent advances in the production of controllable multiple emulsions using microfabricated devices. Particuology, 21, pp.1-17.Publisher
Elsevier / © Chinese Society of Particuology and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2015-10-18Publication date
2015-12-18Copyright date
2016Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Particuology and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.partic.2015.10.001ISSN
1674-2001Publisher version
Language
- en