Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control of emulsions, including multiple emulsions
- Patent Title (中): 控制乳液,包括多重乳液
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Application No.: US13477636Application Date: 2012-05-22
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Publication No.: US09238206B2Publication Date: 2016-01-19
- Inventor: Assaf Rotem , David A. Weitz , Adam R. Abate , Christian Holtze
- Applicant: Assaf Rotem , David A. Weitz , Adam R. Abate , Christian Holtze
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge DE Ludwigshafen
- Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College,BASF SE
- Current Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College,BASF SE
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge DE Ludwigshafen
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: B01F13/00
- IPC: B01F13/00 ; B01F3/08

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to emulsions, and more particularly, to double and other multiple emulsions. Certain aspects of the present invention are generally directed to the creation of double emulsions and other multiple emulsions at a common junction of microfluidic channels. In some cases, the microfluidic channels at the common junction may have substantially the same hydrophobicity. In one set of embodiments, a device may include a common junction of six or more channels, where a first fluid flows through one channel, a second fluid flows through two channels, and a third or carrying fluid flows through two more channels, such that a double emulsion of a first droplet of the first fluid, contained in a second droplet of the second fluid, contained by the carrying fluid, flows away from the common junction through a sixth channel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130046030A1 CONTROL OF EMULSIONS, INCLUDING MULTIPLE EMULSIONS Public/Granted day:2013-02-21
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