Engineering of Droplet Manipulation in Tertiary Junction Microfluidic Channels
Abstract
Two novel aspects we would like to undertake in this proposal are (i) studying the role of channel design in guiding the droplets in confined geometries, and (ii) the effect of droplet size on the path selection process. Nobody until now has reported the critical droplet size required to initiate transition from the streamline to drag-assisted flow in microfluidic systems, and how this critical size depends on the bulk and interfacial properties of the droplet-fluidic system. A detailed investigation will help us map the key parameters affecting the transition process and allow us to custom-design a microfluidic device for sampling dissimilar objects (say cancer cells) from a train of similar kinds.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 23, 2016
- Source ID
- FA23861514031
Entities
People
- Shalini Gupta
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- United States Air Force