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Capillary imbibition of monodisperse emulsions in confined microfluidic channels
Masoud Norouzi Darabad, Sagnik Singha, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz +2
We investigate imbibition of a monodisperse emulsion into a low-aspect ratio microfluidic channel with the height h comparable to the droplet diameter d. For confinement ratio d/h…
Catastrophic thermal destabilization of two-dimensional close-packed emulsions due to synchronized coalescence initiation
Samira Abedi, Chau-Chyun Chen, Siva A. Vanapalli
The mechanisms for phase separation in highly concentrated emulsions when subjected to a thermal phase transition remain to be elucidated. Here, we create a hexagonally close-packe…
Collective Nucleation Dynamics in Two-dimensional Emulsions with Hexagonal Packing
Samira Abedi, Chau-Chyun Chen, Siva A. Vanapalli
We report a new mechanism for nucleation in a monolayer of hexagonally packed monodisperse droplet arrays. Upon cooling, we observe solidified droplets to nucleate their supercoole…
Hydrodynamic mobility of confined polymeric particles, vesicles and cancer cells in a square microchannel
Shamim M. Ahmmed, Naureen S. Suteria, Valeria Garbin +1
The transport of deformable objects including polymer particles, vesicles and cells, has been a subject of interest for several decades where the majority of experimental and theor…