公开(公告)号：US11654404B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US16415353

申请日：2019-05-17

Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Inventor： Timothy M. Swager ,  Sara N. Nagelberg ,  Mathias Kolle ,  Lukas Zeininger ,  Kent Harvey ,  Myles Herbert

IPC: B01F23/41 ,  B01L3/00 ,  B01F25/00 ,  G01N21/17 ,  G01N21/25 ,  G01N21/59 ,  G01N21/47 ,  G01N21/55

CPC classification number: B01F23/41 ,  B01F25/14 ,  B01L3/502784 ,  G01N21/1717 ,  G01N21/25 ,  G01N21/59 ,  B01F23/4145 ,  G01N21/47 ,  G01N21/55

Abstract: Embodiments described herein may be useful for optofluidic devices. For example, optofluidic devices using dynamic fluid lens materials represent an ideal platform to create versatile, reconfigurable, refractive optical components. For example, the articles described herein may be useful as fluidic tunable compound micro-lenses. Such compound micro-lenses may be composed of two or more components (e.g., two or more inner phases) that form stable bi-phase emulsion droplets in outer phases (e.g., aqueous media). In some embodiments, the articles described herein may be useful as light emitting droplets. Advantageously, the plurality of droplets may be configured such that light rays may modified (e.g., via stimulation of the droplets, exposure to an analyte such as a pathogen) to have a detectable emission intensity and/or angle of maximum emission intensity under a particular set of conditions.

公开(公告)号：US20190388849A1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-26

申请号：US16415353

申请日：2019-05-17

Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Inventor： Timothy M. Swager ,  Sara N. Nagelberg ,  Mathias Kolle ,  Lukas Zeininger ,  Kent Harvey ,  Myles Herbert

IPC: B01F3/08 ,  B01L3/00 ,  B01F5/00

Abstract: Embodiments described herein may be useful for optofluidic devices. For example, optofluidic devices using dynamic fluid lens materials represent an ideal platform to create versatile, reconfigurable, refractive optical components. For example, the articles described herein may be useful as fluidic tunable compound micro-lenses. Such compound micro-lenses may be composed of two or more components (e.g., two or more inner phases) that form stable bi-phase emulsion droplets in outer phases (e.g., aqueous media). In some embodiments, the articles described herein may be useful as light emitting droplets. Advantageously, the plurality of droplets may be configured such that light rays may modified (e.g., via stimulation of the droplets, exposure to an analyte such as a pathogen) to have a detectable emission intensity and/or angle of maximum emission intensity under a particular set of conditions.