Breakup of Double Emulsions in Constrictions
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and release of active materials in applications such as drug delivery, food processing and cosmetics. Compared with the hydrodynamically controlled breakup of single-phase droplets in confined geometries, active ingredients have been released by breaking the encapsulating double emulsions 20 thermally or osmotically. In some applications, such as drug delivery and oil recovery, the encapsulating structures must go through media with constrictions, such as blood capillaries in the human body or the porous material of a reservoir. In some cases, these constrictions are the locations 25
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تاریخ انتشار 2011