The physics of microdroplets
The book is devoted to the study of droplets and interfaces in steady or quasisteady state. The first two chapters are standard and introduce the surface tension, the Laplace and Young laws, minimal energy principle and some stability considerations (Plateau-Rayleigh and double-bubble instabilities). Chapters 3--5 deal with droplet geometry (shape, surface and volume) for many different configurations: droplets between two parallel and non-parallel planes, sessile droplets, and droplets in a corner, including Concus-Finn relations for contact angles. Properly speaking, the investigation of the behavior of droplets in microwells and in closed microchannels starts from Chapter 6. Here and in Chapter 7 the reader is informed about wetting and non-wetting plugs, about the trains of droplets, the capillary rise, capillary pumping and capillary valving. Open microluidics and contact of droplets with particles and interfaces are topics of Chapters 8 and 9. The authors examine capillary flows in various grooves and present the theory of suspended microfluidics, giving applications to droplet dispensing. Different manipulations with droplets are described, including contact, potential engulfment, encapsulation of polymerized droplets and capillary assemblies. The final Chapters 10 and 11 treat digital microfluidics and some approaches to 3D-microelectronics by assembling stacks of chips on a wafer.NEWLINENEWLINE The references are placed at the end of each chapter. The text does not contain exercises for students, but many impressive color pictures and photographs illustrate richly the material. In the reviewer's opinion, this well-organized and clearly written book can be highly recommended to researchers with an interest in microfluidic systems and nanotechnology.
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- Minimizing movements for mean curvature flow of droplets with prescribed contact angle
- The role of the electric bond number in the stability of pasta phases
- Shape of pendent droplets under a tilted surface
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- Anisotropic mean curvature on facets and relations with capillarity
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1453685 (Why is no real title available?)
- Taylor-Culick retractions and the influence of the surroundings
- The engulfment of aqueous droplets on perfectly wetting oil layers
- Minimizing movements for forced anisotropic curvature flow of droplets
- Consistency of minimizing movements with smooth mean curvature flow of droplets with prescribed contact angle in \(\mathbb{R}^3\)
- Dynamical behaviour of a soap film bridge driven by an electrostatic force
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