Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Jul 19;8:15902. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15902

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2017, The Author(s)

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

PMC Copyright notice

(a) Schematic representation of the microfluidic processing of NSF into micrococoons. (b) Optical microscopy images of the NSF micrococoons formed at a single T-junction in the microfluidic device. Micrographs of a variety of NSF micrococoon shapes are shown in the lower panels: (i) sphere, (ii) cylinder, (iii) short fibre, (iv) thin fibre, (v) thick fibre. Scale bar, 20 μm. (c) Micrographs of NSF micrococoon formation acquired at three different time points T1, T2 and T3: (i) sphere; T1=0 ms, T2=10 ms, T3=13 ms, (ii) cylinder; T1=0 ms, T2=13 ms and T3=34 ms and (v) thick fibre; T1=0 ms, T2=59 ms, T3=68 ms. Scale bar, 20 μm. (d) S schematic representations showing the characteristic dimensions of the NSF micrococoons generated in this study. (e) Different micrococoon shapes generated as a function of the protein concentration and of the ratio of the flow rates of the aqueous to oil phases.