THREE DIMENSIONAL FLASH FLOW MICROREACTOR FOR SCALE UP PRODUCTION OF MONODISPERSE PEG-PLGA NANOPARTICLES

We present a pressure-tolerant 3D parallel polyimide (PI) film microreactor operating at up to ~160 bars with direct 3D flow focusing geometry for mass production of PEG-PLGA nanoparticles in a ~10(1) gram-scale (g h(-1)).

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