herringbone microfluidic chip mixers  (Microfluidic ChipShop)

Journal: Biomaterials

Article Title: Tunable, biodegradable gold nanoparticles as contrast agents for computed tomography and photoacoustic imaging.

doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.06.015

Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 2. A) TEM image of PCPP nanoparticles synthesized without a microfluidic device (bulk synthesis) showing the polydispersity of their sizes. B) Size variation of PCPP nano- particles synthesized using the microfluidic device as a function of PEG-PLL amount in the formulation. C) TEM images of PCPP nanoparticles synthesized using a microfluidic device with varying amounts of PEG-PLL added in the formulation (presented as mg PEG-PLL per mg of PCPP).

Article Snippet: The two syringes were attached via polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) tubing (ID: 0.5 mm, OD: 1 mm, microfluidic ChipShop, Jena, Germany) to a microfluidic chip (Herringbone Mixer, microfluidic ChipShop, Jena, Germany) with two 200 mm 300 mm inlets, a 200 mm 600 mm staggered herringbone mixer (SHM) channel, and a 200 mm deep 600 mm outlet directed to a conical tube (Fig. S1).

Techniques: Synthesized, Formulation