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Friday, April 27, 2012

Behavior of double emulsions in a cross-type optical separation system

Kyung Heon Lee, Sang Bok Kim, Sang Youl Yoon, Kang Soo Lee, Jin Ho Jung, and Hyung Jin Sung

The behavior of double emulsions in a cross-type optical particle separation system was studied for different combinations of the refractive indices and different inner and outer layer radii. The radii and refractive indices of the double emulsions were easily adjusted by taking advantage of the co-flowing geometry of a cross-type optical particle separation device. An analytic expression of the optical forces on a pair of concentric spheres was derived using the photon stream method in the ray optics regime. The predicted trajectories of the double emulsions by the optical force agreed well with the experimental data. This work has potential uses in cell separation by morphometry, drug delivery vehicle and emulsion-based biomedical applications.

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