Fabrication of porous 'clickable' polymer beads and rods through generation of high internal phase emulsion (HIPE) droplets in a simple microfluidic device Ghent University
The fabrication of micrometer-sized monodisperse highly porous polymer particles. of both spherical and rodlike shapes, using a simple microfluidic setup is demonstrated. Droplets were generated in a coflow device from a water-in-oil high internal phase emulsion (HIPE), hereby creating a water-in-oil-water (W/O/W) emulsion, The individual droplets of monomer HIPE were polymerized downstream in the channel through photopolymerization. The polymer ...