A microfluidic device based on droplet storage for screening solubility diagrams

Lab Chip. 2007 Jul;7(7):829-34. doi: 10.1039/b700799j. Epub 2007 Apr 20.

Abstract

This work describes a new microfluidic device developed for the rapid screening of solubility diagrams. In several parallel channels, hundreds of nanolitre volume droplets of a given solution are first stored with a gradual variation in the solute concentration. Then, the application of a temperature gradient along these channels enables us to read directly and quantitatively phase diagrams, concentration vs. temperature. We show, using a solution of adipic acid, that we can measure ten points of the solubility curve in less than 1 hr and with only 250 microL of solution.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adipates / chemistry
  • Crystallization
  • Microfluidic Analytical Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Microfluidics
  • Particle Size
  • Solubility
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman
  • Temperature

Substances

  • Adipates
  • adipic acid