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Microfluidic Fabrication Solutions for Tailor-Designed Fiber Suspensions
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| Title: | Microfluidic Fabrication Solutions for Tailor-Designed Fiber Suspensions |
| Authors: | Berthet, Helene Browse this author | | du Roure, Olivia Browse this author | | Lindner, Anke Browse this author |
| Keywords: | micro-fluidics | | fibers | | fiber suspensions | | fluid-structure interactions | | flexible fibers |
| Issue Date: | 30-Nov-2016 |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| Journal Title: | Applied sciences |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Start Page: | 385 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.3390/app6120385 |
| Abstract: | Fibers are widely used in different industrial processes, for example in paper manufacturing or lost circulation problems in the oil industry. Recently, interest towards the use of fibers at the microscale has grown, driven by research in bio-medical applications or drug delivery systems. Microfluidic systems are not only directly relevant for lab-on-chip applications, but have also proven to be good model systems to tackle fundamental questions about the flow of fiber suspensions. It has therefore become necessary to provide fiber-like particles with an excellent control of their properties. We present here two complementary in situ methods to fabricate controlled micro-fibers allowing for an embedded fabrication and flow-on-a-chip platform. The first one, based on a photo-lithography principle, can be used to make isolated fibers and dilute fiber suspensions at specific locations of interest inside a microchannel. The self-assembly property of super-paramagnetic colloids is the principle of the second fabrication method, which enables the fabrication of concentrated suspensions of more flexible fibers. We propose a flow gallery with several examples of fiber flow illustrating the two methods' capabilities and a range of recent laminar flow results. |
| Rights: | © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/64362 |
| Appears in Collections: | 国際連携研究教育局 : GI-CoRE (Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education : GI-CoRE) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: Anke Lindner
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