Fabrication of smart supramolecular systems based on polyelectrolytes and surfactants in microfluidic environment

Autor: Artem Bezrukov, Yury Galyametdinov
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 904:012005
ISSN: 1757-899X
1757-8981
DOI: 10.1088/1757-899x/904/1/012005
Popis: This work represents a process of fabrication of smart materials in a microfluidic confinement. Compared with macroscopic solutions, microfluidic convection-diffusion conditions create multiple additional factors that affect complexation in reacting polymer and surfactant flows. The system of convection-diffusion-reaction equations was solved to develop a polyelectrolyte-surfactant interaction model in a microchannel with laminar flows of reactants; phase formation and precipitation conditions in a microchannel were considered. The recommendations for control of phase behaviour in a microchannel were proposed by the design and operation mode of microfluidic devices used for synthesis of polymer-surfactant complexes and characterization of polymer-surfactant association process.
Databáze: OpenAIRE