Silicon array of elongated through-holes for monodisperse emulsion droplets

By I. Kobayashi, M. Nakajima, K. Chun, Y. Kikuchi, H. Fujita. 2002

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Two-phase microfluidic flows (2011, background): “The cross-sectional shape of these uniform through-holes plays an extremely important role in the emulsification process, and only oblong through-channels with aspect ratios above a critical value of about three are able to produce monodisperse droplets (Kobayashi et al., 2002; Kobayashi et al., 200”
Correlations of droplet formation in T-junction microfluidic devices: from squeezing to dripping (2008, methodology): “... which allow for the formation of microdrops inside microfluidic devices has received significant attention over the past 10 years (Kobayashi et al. 2001; Sugiura et al. 2004; Cristini and Tan 2004; Thorsen et al. 2001; Xu and Nakajima 2004; Garstecki et al. 2006; Anna et al. 2003; Xu et al. 2006”
Production of uniform droplets using membrane, microchannel and microfluidic emulsification devices (2012, background): “Deep vertical MCs that completely penetrate the substrate are fabricated by deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) (Kobayashi et al., 2002a).”
Microencapsulation by solvent extraction/evaporation: reviewing the state of the art of microsphere preparation process technology. (2005, background): “5a,b) [81], both featuring uniformly sized pores or holes, have also been studied for emulsion formation.”