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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 112, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.5025874
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- LOEWE CompuGene Project - Hessian Ministry of Science and Art
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The effect of DC electric fields on the generation of droplets of water and xanthan gum solutions in sunflower oil at a microfluidic T-junction is experimentally studied. The electric field leads to a significant reduction of the droplet diameter, by about a factor of 2 in the case of water droplets. The droplet size can be tuned by varying the electric field strength, an effect that can be employed to produce a stream of droplets with a tailor-made size sequence. Compared to the case of purely hydrodynamic droplet production without electric fields, the electric control has about the same effect on the droplet size if the electric stress at the liquid/liquid interface is the same as the hydrodynamic stress. Published by AIP Publishing.
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