Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Southampton
Article title
Generation and manipulation of “smart” droplets
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
Title of journal
Soft Matter
Article number
-
Volume number
5
Issue number
3
First page of article
576
ISSN of journal
1744-683X
Year of publication
2009
Number of additional authors
4
Additional information
Significance of output:
Electrorheological (ER) fluid is a kind of ‘smart’ material that has been widely applied in components such as clutch, valves, vibration damping, and so on, but all in a continuous phase. In this paper we expanded ER fluid research into a new area of multiple phase systems and digital droplets, by synthesizing new type of ER fluid and inventing appropriate microfluidic systems. There are following up researches from more than 10 other groups (requested material), and applications into chemical reactions, bio-assays and logic computations in microfluidics. Patent applied (20110114190).
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
