Nagoya University

Hiroshi Kuramoto

Hideyoshi Harashima

Yoshinobu Baba

Kentaro Kogure

Noritada Kaji

Manabu Tokeshi

Yasuo Shinohara

It is intended to provide a method whereby various kinds of microcapsules, which are usable in, for example, a gene vector, can be produced in a small amount. This production method comprises: feeding a fluid containing a substance to be encapsulated into at lease one () of material-feeding microchannels in a substrate in which these material-feeding microchannels () and a reaction microchannel () connected to these material-feeding microchannels are formed; feeding an envelop-forming fluid containing a material for forming envelopes into at least one of the other material-feeding microchannels (); and allowing the envelope-forming fluid and the fluid containing the encapsulated substance that converge in the reaction microchannel from each material-feeding microchannel to flow through the reaction microchannel while continuously maintaining the interface between the fluids formed at the confluence thereof.

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Tokushima, Japan

Hiroshi Kuramoto