On-Chip Control over Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Complexation in Nonequilibrium Microfluidic Confinement.

ABSTRACT: The goal of this work is to classify and quantify the factors that govern polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexation in microfluidic confinement and optimize the designs and operating modes of microfluidic reactors to offer additional advantages over the macroscopic synthesis of such complexes. We analyze and solve a system of governing convection-diffusion-reaction equations to conveniently represent these factors or their combinations as dimensionless similarity criteria. We discuss how these factors contribute to the on-chip control of the reaction initiation, the complex product distribution in a microfluidic device, and the phase behavior of the confined reacting flows and experimentally verify the results in microchips. This approach allows for designing microfluidic devices and setting

SUBMITTER: Bezrukov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9571623 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature