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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2008
Liang-yin Chu, Chengdu, CN;
Ho Cheung Shum, Hong Kong, CN;
Alberto Fernandez-nieves, Atlanta, GA (US);
Andrew S. Utada, Cambridge, MA (US);
Enric Santanach Carreras, Cambridge, MA (US);
David A. Weitz, Bolton, MA (US);
Liang-Yin Chu, Chengdu, CN;
Ho Cheung Shum, Hong Kong, CN;
Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Atlanta, GA (US);
Andrew S. Utada, Cambridge, MA (US);
Enric Santanach Carreras, Cambridge, MA (US);
David A. Weitz, Bolton, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention generally relates to emulsions such as multiple emulsions, and to methods and apparatuses for making emulsions, and techniques for using the same. A multiple emulsion generally describes larger droplets that contain one or more smaller droplets therein which, in some cases, can contain even smaller droplets therein, etc. Emulsions, including multiple emulsions can be formed in certain embodiments with generally precise repeatability, and can be tailored to include any number of inner droplets, in any desired nesting arrangement, within a single outer droplet. In addition, in some aspects of the invention, one or more droplets may be controllably released from a surrounding droplet.