Droplet formation behavior in a microfluidic device fabricated by hydrogel molding 2014.pdfVIP

RESEARCH PAPER Droplet formation behavior in a microfluidic device fabricated by hydrogel molding Takahiro Odera ? Hirotada Hirama ? Jo Kuroda ? Hiroyuki Moriguchi ? Toru Torii Received: 9 June 2013 / Accepted: 24 December 2013  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract We describe the behavior of droplet formation within 3D cross-junctions and 2D T-junctions with various cross-sectional geometries that were manually fabricated using the hydrogel-molding method. The method utilizes wire-shaped hydrogels as molds to construct 3D and 2D microchannel structures. We investigated the flow pa