Investigating slippage, droplet breakup, and synthesizing microcapsules in microfluidic systems

Abstract

The present paper reflects the presentation made in the 2008 APS-DFD meeting; it is dedicated in discussing liquid slippage at solid walls, droplet breakup in microfluidic systems, and capsule generation in microfluidic devices. The analysis of the physical processes implied in these situations led to improve our knowledge on the importance of slippage phenomena in electroosmotic flows, the effect of the confinement in droplet breakup processes, and the effect of recirculating flows on the morphology of multiple droplets. © 2010 American Institute of Physics.