Microfluidics and Polymers: Discovery and Development
Microfluidic reactors provide high heat and mass transfer rates, safe and rapid synthesis, and the possibility to develop new reaction pathways that are too difficult for conventional processes. Recently, droplet-based microfluidics has opened exciting opportunities in developing new materials and fast throughput screening of physical and chemical processes. This lecture reviews our progress in developing microfluidic strategies for the continuous synthesis of a variety of polymer colloids with controlled sizes, shapes, and compositions. Exploratory applications of parallel integrated microfluidic reactors will be presented in the second part of the lecture. Finally, I will demonstrate the use of capsules of biopolymers as model cells to study their flow through chemically and topographically patterned microchannels.
2006
89th Canadian
Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2006)
May 27–31, 2006
Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre
Halifax, NS
May 18–20 — ChemCon2006 (31st CIC-APICS Undergraduate Chemistry Conference), Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB. Contact Daniel Beach, 2006 APICS/CIC Chemistry Conference Chair