Self-organizing microfluidic crystals

We consider how to design a microfluidic system in which suspended particles spontaneously order into flowing crystals when driven by external pressure. Via theory and numerics, we find that particle–particle hydrodynamic interactions drive self-organization under suitable conditions of particle mor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Uspal, William Eric, Doyle, Patrick S
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107145