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DOI: 10.1039/D0RA90086A (Correction) RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 32843-32844

Correction: Droplet microfluidics: fundamentals and its advanced applications

Somayeh Sohrabi, Nour Kassir and Mostafa Keshavarz Moraveji*
Department of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran. E-mail: moraveji@aut.ac.ir

Received 10th August 2020 , Accepted 10th August 2020

First published on 3rd September 2020

Abstract

Correction for ‘Droplet microfluidics: fundamentals and its advanced applications’ by Somayeh Sohrabi et al., RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 27560–27574, DOI: 10.1039/D0RA04566G.

The authors regret the omission of a funding acknowledgement in the original article. This acknowledgement is given below.

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Iran National Science Foundation (INSF), grant number 98017171.

In addition, the authors regret that incorrect reference numbers were given in Table 1 of the original article. The corrected table and references are shown below.

Table 1 Size and frequency distributions for various droplet generation systems
Geometry and material Continuous phase Size/μm Frequency/Hz Ref. in original article reference list Ref. in this Correction
Water in oil Channel array in silicon Kerosene with monolaurate 21 ∼5300 (est.) — 1
T-junction in acrylated urethane Decane, tetradecane, and hexadecane with Span 80 10 to 35 20 to 80 — 2
T-junction in PMMA High oleic sunflower oil 100 to 350 10 to 2500 — 3
T-junction in PDMS C14F12 with (C6F13)(CH2)2OH 7.5 nl (plug flow) 2 55 4
Shear-focusing in PDMS Oleic acid 13 to 35 (satellites <100 nm) 15–100 49 5
Oil in water Channel array in silicon Water with SDS 22.5 ∼5300 (est.) — 1
Sheath flow in glass capillary Water with SDS 2 to 200 100 to 10[thin space (1/6-em)]000 — 6
Gas in liquid Flow-focusing in PDMS Water with Tween 20 10 to 1000 >100[thin space (1/6-em)]000 — 7
Shear-focusing in PDMS Water with phospholipids 5 to 50 >1[thin space (1/6-em)]000[thin space (1/6-em)]000 — 8
Liquid in air DEP on hydrophobic insulator Air 10 pl ∼8 (est.) 57 9
EWOD on hydrophobic insulator Air ∼700 nl ∼1 (est.) 28 10

The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.

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