Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control of emulsions, including multiple emulsions
- Patent Title (中): 控制乳液,包括多重乳液
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Application No.: US14961460Application Date: 2015-12-07
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Publication No.: US09573099B2Publication Date: 2017-02-21
- Inventor: David A. Weitz , Assaf Rotem , Adam R. Abate , Christian Holtze
- Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College , BASF SE
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Current Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: B01F3/08
- IPC: B01F3/08 ; B01F13/00

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to emulsions, and more particularly, to double and other multiple emulsions. Certain aspects of the present invention are generally directed to the creation of double emulsions and other multiple emulsions at a common junction of microfluidic channels. In some cases, the microfluidic channels at the common junction may have substantially the same hydrophobicity. In one set of embodiments, a device may include a common junction of six or more channels, where a first fluid flows through one channel, a second fluid flows through two channels, and a third or carrying fluid flows through two more channels, such that a double emulsion of a first droplet of the first fluid, contained in a second droplet of the second fluid, contained by the carrying fluid, flows away from the common junction through a sixth channel. Other aspects of the invention are generally directed to methods of making and using such systems, kits involving such systems, emulsions created using such systems, or the like.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160193574A1 CONTROL OF EMULSIONS, INCLUDING MULTIPLE EMULSIONS Public/Granted day:2016-07-07
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