A fluid flow-through device and a photochemical reactor. The fluid flow-through device (1) includes an outer tube (2) having an outer surface (21) and an inner surface (22); and an inner tube (3) having an outer surface (31) and an inner surface (32), the inner tube being disposed inside the outer tube and forming a channel of a fluid by the inner surface of the outer tube and the outer surface, with a distance between the inner surface of the outer tube and the outer surface of the inner tube in a thickness direction of the outer tube being from 100 nm to 5 mm. The photochemical reactor includes the fluid flow-through device and a photocatalyst disposed on at least one surface of the inner surface of the outer tube and the outer surface of the inner tube.

A fluid processing assembly includes a lumen for receiving at least one inlet stream and dispensing a primary product stream, and an energizing device for supplying energy to an energizable portion of the lumen. A primary product collection assembly is in fluid communication with the lumen for receiving the primary product stream. The energizable portion is positioned exterior to the primary product collection assembly. A pressurized gas source is downstream of the lumen. The pressurized gas source supplies pressurized gas to the primary product collection assembly for pressurizing at least a portion of the primary product collection assembly and the lumen.

A microfluidic device (100) made from glass, ceramic or vitroceramic, comprises an upper layer (122), a lower layer (124) and an intermediate layer (114), the intermediate layer (114) comprising an upper face (114b) and a lower face (114a), the lower face (114a) comprising a first open structured surface defining a first microfluidic channel (126) and the upper face (114b) comprising a second open structured surface defining a second microfluidic channel (112); the lower surface of the intermediate layer (114) cooperating with a first planar layer closing the first microchannel (126); the upper face (114b) of the intermediate layer (114) cooperating with a second planar layer (130), closing the second microfluidic channel (112) in a sealed manner, and the second planar layer constituting an intermediate layer (130) which cooperates, on its face opposite the intermediate layer (114), with another layer (122) comprising on its inner face (122a) a structured surface defining a third microfluidic channel (128).

The present invention concerns a microfluidic device (1) for performing physical, chemical or biological treatment to at least one packet without contamination.

The disclosed invention relates to a process for converting ethylbenzene to styrene, comprising: flowing a feed composition comprising ethylbenzene in at least one process microchannel in contact with at least one catalyst to dehydrogenate the ethylbenzene and form a product comprising styrene; exchanging heat between the process microchannel and at least one heat exchange channel in thermal contact with the process microchannel; and removing product from the process microchannel. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising a process microchannel, a heat exchange channel, and a heat transfer wall positioned between the process microchannel and heat exchange channel wherein the heat transfer wall comprises a thermal resistance layer.

A continuous acoustic chemical microreactor system is disclosed. The system includes a continuous process vessel (CPV) and an acoustic agitator coupled to the CPV and configured to agitate the CPV along an oscillation axis. The CPV includes a reactant inlet configured to receive one or more reactants into the CPV, an elongated tube coupled at a first end to the reactant inlet and configured to receive the reactants from the reactant inlet, and a product outlet coupled to a second end of the elongated tube and configured to discharge a product of a chemical reaction among the reactants from the CPV. The acoustic agitator is configured to agitate the CPV along the oscillation axis such that the inner surface of the elongated tube accelerates the one or more reactants in alternating upward and downward directions along the oscillation axis.

The present disclosure relates to a method of synthesizing metal nanoparticles, where the method includes mixing a metal precursor with a stabilizing ligand in a first zone of a first fluidic device to form a first mixture and mixing the first mixture with a reductant in a second zone of the first fluidic device to form a second mixture, such that the metal nanoparticles form in the second zone.

The present disclosure is directed towards improved systems and methods for large-scale production of nanoparticles used for delivery of therapeutic material. The apparatus can be used to manufacture a wide array of nanoparticles containing therapeutic material including, but not limited to, lipid nanoparticles and polymer nanoparticles. In certain embodiments, continuous flow operation and parallelization of microfluidic mixers contribute to increased nanoparticle production volume.