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Microbubble characteristic in a co-flowing liquid in microfluidic chip

  • Lixia Sun
  • , Mingxu Fan
  • , Huadong Yu*
  • , Peng Li
  • , Jinkai Xu
  • , Hongwei Qin
  • , Shengyuan Jiang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Changchun University of Science and Technology
  • Beihua University
  • School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

An experimental method for the formation characteristics of co-flowing focusing microbubbles based on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic chip is introduced. An experimental system was set up to investigate the effects of liquid flow rate, gas pressure and gas channel width on bubble detachment volume and formation time. Based on the assumption of ellipsoid theory, the theoretical model for volume prediction of co-flowing focusing microbubbles is established. The numerical solution of the model is obtained by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. The results show that the prediction results of theoretical model correlate well with the experimental data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)992-1001
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Dispersion Science and Technology
Volume41
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Jun 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • PDMS microfluidic chip
  • co-flowing focusing
  • formation characteristics
  • microbubble
  • theoretical model

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