Synvir's Ultrafast Nozzle Speeds Past T-Junction Chips

Long Beach, CA, May 31, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Monodisperse emulsion production rates are normally limited to about 10,000 droplets per second, owing to the fundamental flow dynamics of T-junction chips. A new technology pushes that limit by an order magnitude, with a single nozzle generating 100,000 droplets per second. What’s more, the device produces extremely monodisperse droplets with a coefficient of variation of just 1%.

Those performance improvements were achieved by integrating a piezoceramic element into the nozzle design. But unlike droplet-on-demand inkjet printheads, which use a similar approach to pump ink, the MEMs device inserts droplets into a continuous flow of a second fluid, producing a highly concentrated emulsion with precise and reproducible characteristics.

“This nozzle is just one element of a high volume emulsion manufacturing platform” said Mark Gray, President of Synvir, Inc. “A single MEMs nozzle is an ideal upgrade for T-junction users, but what really makes this technology disruptive is that it scales to meet the needs of emerging applications in the biological and material sciences that require billions of monodisperse droplets within minutes.”

Having validated its nozzle design, Synvir has turned its attention to integrating the new technology into a very high throughput device. Details of the new product have not yet been made public. In the meantime, the company has made its 100kHz droplet generator available for purchase.

Synvir, Inc. is an emulsion generation technology company offering complete systems and components. For more information, visit www.synvir.com

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