A microfluidic approach to fabricate monodisperse hollow or porous poly(HEMA–MMA) microspheres using single emulsions as templates

Porous polymer particles—A comprehensive guide to synthesis, characterization, functionalization and applications

“…A polycarbonate based chip was fabricated and different batches of beads in the size range from 10 to 120 µm with CV values below 2% were achieved. In another work [220] the effect of initiator on morphology of the beads was studied in a capillary device. While the continuous phase was water, the discrete phase was a mixture of HEMA and MMA monomers, as well as a porogen, 1-octanol.…”

Two-phase microfluidic flows

“…Microreactions using droplets or bubbles in microfluidics have been extensively studied. In parallel, increasing interest has been attracted to utilize the droplet as a platform for producing microgels (Tumarkin and Kumacheva, 2009), microcapsule Liu et al, 2009), microspheres (Prasad et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2009a), hybrid complex soft matters, and so on, which are targeting at drug delivery, bioanalysis, photonics and optoelectronic applications.…”

Mikrotröpfchen in Mikrofluidiksystemen: eine Technik für Entdeckungen in der Chemie und Biologie

“…¾hnlich wie andere Polymerpartikel sind auch monodisperse Mikrogelpartikel aus biologischen oder bioverträglichen Polymeren [216][217][218] durch chemische Gelbildung zugänglich. [219,220] Mit temperaturabhängigen Komponenten wie Agarose können Hydrogelpartikel durch einfache Temperaturände-rung erhalten werden. [43] Einige Berichte beschrieben die Bildung von Alginat-Partikeln [221] in Gegenwart vernetzender Dikationen.…”