title: A journey of trains of droplets in droplet-based microfluidic devices.
abstract: In this paper, we propose a microfluidic platform toseparate magnetic particles with a constant volumetric flow condition. In order to realize this architecture, three main functions for a droplet manipulation based system are integrated into a single device: synchronization of droplets by matching a location of droplets; lateral electro-coalescence; and magnetic particle manipulation. For an optimized condition of this device, a droplet generation was controlled by varying a droplet size at a fixed flow rate ratio 0.86. The electro-coalescence efficiency and maximum throughput are investigated at a given flow rate condition.
authors.forename: Hun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Linfeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Kwang W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Oh
mesh_terms: D055664:Electrochemical Techniques; D004566:Electrodes; D008280:Magnetics; D046210:Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D017971:Tin Compounds / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D017971:Tin Compounds; C109984:indium tin oxide