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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 29.
Published in final edited form as: Lab Chip. 2018 May 29;18(11):1581–1592. doi: 10.1039/c7lc01266g

Table 3.

Heat transfer characteristics of droplets, including estimates of the effective thermal conductance and the efficiency of reaction energy contributing to a temperature change of the droplet.

Initial EDTA
concentration		 Flow
configuration		 Peak ΔT [K],
Experimental		 Heat Loss
Rate [µW],
Model		 Effective
Thermal
Conductance
[µW/K]		 ΔQloss
[nJ],
Model		 ΔQtot [nJ],
Model		 Efficiency
ηth
25 mM With spacer 0.058 0.926 15.97 83.34 283.73 71%
25 mM No spacer 0.075 1.198 15.97 107.82 397.23 73%
50 mM With spacer 0.16 2.556 15.98 230.04 567.47 59%
50 mM No spacer 0.18 2.875 15.97 258.75 794.45 67%