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Michinao Hashimoto, PhD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – EUA

Data: 30 de agosto de 2013

Horário: 10h

Coordenação da Análise de Temas Avançados: Prof. Dr. Antonio Aprigio da Silva Curvelo, Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck, Artur de Jesus Motheo, Maria Teresa do Prado Gambardella e Ana Maria de Guzzi Plepis

Coordenação do Química às 16h: Prof. Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck e Andrei Leitão

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A microfluidic flow-focusing generator offers precise control over the formation of emulsions.  The processes thar forms bubles and droplets can exhibit rich and complex dynamics, and such ultiphase flow (i.e., bubles and/or droplets coexisting with a continuous phase) are found to be useful for applications in diferente fields in sciences, engineering, and diagnostics in microfluidics.  This presentation introduces fundamental of the generation of emulsions in microfluidics, and discusses on (i) characterization of processes tha generate bubbles and droplet in variations of microfluidic flow-focusing generators, (ii) development of emulsion-based applications, and  (iii) fabrication of microfluidic channels with solvente resistant materials to enhance the capability of generating emulsions.