TY - GEN
T1 - Space-filling open microfluidics for droplet collection
T2 - 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2020
AU - Kai, Hiroyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
The author is grateful to the support by The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, Nakatani Foundation, JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19K15413, and JST COI Grant Number JPMJCE1303.
Funding Information:
The author is grateful to the support by The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, KAKENHIGrantNumber19K15413, and JSTOCI Grant NumberJPMJCE1303.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 CBMS-0001
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We have previously designed hyperbranching open microfluidic channels that collect aqueous droplets sprayed on the surface, by means of directional droplet transport by Laplace pressure imbalance and hierarchical fusion of droplets. The channels were made of a fractal branching, space-filling tree that densely fills a triangular area, and can accumulate liquid at the central focal point. In this study, the patterns of space-filling open microfluidic channels are generalized so that the pattern can cover any convex polygon with an arbitrary focal point. The distributions of liquid at the equilibrium for different space-filling patterns are experimentally investigated.
AB - We have previously designed hyperbranching open microfluidic channels that collect aqueous droplets sprayed on the surface, by means of directional droplet transport by Laplace pressure imbalance and hierarchical fusion of droplets. The channels were made of a fractal branching, space-filling tree that densely fills a triangular area, and can accumulate liquid at the central focal point. In this study, the patterns of space-filling open microfluidic channels are generalized so that the pattern can cover any convex polygon with an arbitrary focal point. The distributions of liquid at the equilibrium for different space-filling patterns are experimentally investigated.
KW - Fractal
KW - Open Microfluidics
KW - Space-Filling Tree
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85098261920
T3 - MicroTAS 2020 - 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
SP - 116
EP - 117
BT - MicroTAS 2020 - 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
PB - Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society
Y2 - 4 October 2020 through 9 October 2020
ER -