Vortex fluidic device mixes the immiscible

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Flinders University researchers are using their vortex fluidic device to mix immiscible liquids, an advance that could improve future products and industrial processes. 

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Prof Colin Raston, Flinders University Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and the vortex fluidic device at Flinders University, South Australia (Image: Flinders University)

Using the highly advanced rapid fluidic flow techniques possible in the vortex fluidic device (VFD), the Australian research team has completed 10 years of research to find a way to use clean chemistry to unlock ‘mixing immiscibles’.

According to Flinders University Professor Colin Raston, senior author in a new paper published in Chemical Science, this will have applications in a range of global industries, from food processing and nutraceuticals to cosmetics and drug delivery.

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“Mixing immiscible liquids is fundamentally important in process engineering and usually involves a lot of energy input and waste products,” Professor Raston said in a statement. “We now demonstrate how this process, using a common solvent and water, can avoid the use of other substances for controlling reactions across immiscible liquids, making it cleaner and greener.”

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