Electrocoalescence of drops synchronized by size-dependent flow in microfluidic channels

By K. Ahn, J. Agresti, H. Chong, M. Márquez, David A. Weitz. 2006

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Two-phase microfluidic flows (2011, methodology): “, 2004; Ahn et al., 2006b), thermocapillary and magnetic actuation (Nguyen et al., 2006). Ozen et al. (2006) proposed amethod for producing droplets with a coefficient of variation within 1% in a closed environment using electrical forces.”
Continuous generation of hydrogel beads and encapsulation of biological materials using a microfluidic droplet-merging channel (2008, methodology): “2007) or electrostatics (Ahn et al. 2006; Link et al. 2006) have been developed.”
Electrorheological Fluids: Mechanisms, Dynamics, and Microfluidics Applications (2012, background): “…optical approaches (Baroud et al. 2007, Jeffries et al. 2007), magnetic field (Psaltis et al. 2006), and electrical control ( Joung et al. 2000, Ahn et al. 2006, Priest et al. 2006, Chabert & Viovy 2008), including electrostatic (Link et al. 2006), electrokinetic effect (Indeikina & Chang…”
Droplet microfluidic technology for single-cell high-throughput screening (2009, background): “Hence, the breadth of applications could be further expanded by the use of postscreening droplet manipulation, like sorting (9) or Fig.”
Ultrahigh-throughput screening in drop-based microfluidics for directed evolution (2010, background): “Prior to sorting, drops can be fused (28) to add additional reagents or even other cells, further increasing the versatility.”