Nobuyuki Tanaka

Dr. Nobuyuki Tanaka


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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28 April 2026 in Micromachines
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Faisal bin Nasser SARBALANDFaisal bin Nasser SARBALAND
Faisal bin Nasser SARBALAND
MKMasashi Kobayashi
Masashi Kobayashi
DTDaiki Tanaka
Daiki Tanaka
RFRisa Fujita
Risa Fujita
NTNobuyuki Tanaka
Nobuyuki Tanaka
Masahiro FuruyaMasahiro Furuya
Masahiro Furuya
Laminar co-flow in microchannels typically results in stratified streams with diffusion-limited mixing. This work presents an additively manufactured microfluidic platform that integrates a pulse tank and a transverse injection nozzle into an otherwise straight channel, enabling pulse-driven mixing and droplet generation using air-pressure actuation alone. In Device A, transverse pulsed injection disrupted the stratified interface and significantly enhanced mixing compared with the no-pulse case, as confirmed by an entropy-based mixing index. In Device B, pulsed injection into a continuous oil phase enabled stable droplet-on-demand generation with pressure-tunable droplet diameter in a straight circular channel. The devices operated in a laminar regime, with representative Reynolds, Péclet, and capillary numbers confirming diffusion-limited baseline mixing and stable dripping-type droplet formation. The results demonstrate that pulse-driven injections in a simple, additively manufactured geometry provide an effective, low-complexity approach to mixing enhancement and droplet generation without external fields or complex channel designs.