Various devices and methods covering a technology for combinatorial liquid handling. At least some example embodiments of the devices may include a plurality of liquid dispensers configured to dispense drops, wherein at least a carrier drop is dispensed and sequentially collides and merges with drops dispensed from a sub-plurality of liquid dispensers, so that liquids from the sub-plurality of liquid dispensers are located in the carrier drop during flight, and a support surface being positioned so that the carrier drop lands on the support surface.

According to an example, a mixing device comprises a first chamber including a solute addition member and a first mixer, a second chamber including a second mixer, a printing fluid pump, and a controller operatively connected to the solute addition member, the pump, the first mixer, and the second mixer. The controller is to control the pump to move printing fluid towards the printing fluid tank based on a printing fluid density level in the printing fluid tank, to control the solute addition member to add solids based on the printing fluid density level, and to control the first mixer and the second mixer to mix the added solids with the printing fluid moved by the pump.

An acoustic rotary liquid processor coupled with high-intensity ultrasonic vibration, rotary stirring, gas purging, and melt surface stabilizing is described. The processor can be used for the synthesis of particulate reinforced composite materials, scavenging dissolved gases in molten materials, and preparation of a slurry containing a small fraction of non-dendritic solid particles for semi-solid material processing.

A method and system for mechanical activation of organic and/or inorganic substances and/or substance mixtures in chemical, pharmaceutical, food acceptable applications and/or in applications useful for building purposes, includes feeding of a substance and/or substance mixture to be activated through an inlet opening into a container which stores activation bodies, feeding a process gas stream into the container, wherein the process gas stream can support transportation of the substance and/or substance mixture to be activated, mechanically activating the substance and/or substance mixture in the container by a rotating apparatus, wherein at least one beating unit of the apparatus interacts with the activation bodies, discharging the substance and/or substance mixture activated by the activation bodies from the container through an outlet opening, wherein the substance and/or substance mixture dwells in the container for a predetermined dwell time.

A method may include determining a first dry mass flow rate of a wet paper material stream based on a first amount of contaminants, a first moisture content, and a first wet mass flow rate of the wet paper material stream, determining a second dry mass flow rate of a wet plastic material stream based on a second amount of contaminants, a second moisture content, and a second wet mass flow rate of the wet plastic material stream, calculating, using the first dry mass flow rate and the second dry mass flow rate, a paper/plastic ratio of a combined stream of the paper material stream and the plastic material stream, and adjusting, a flow rate of paper into the paper material stream and a flow rate of plastic into the plastic material stream such that the calculated paper/plastic ratio of the combined stream equals a target paper/plastic ratio.

A continuous flow microfluidic system for continuous flow operation of a microfluidic chip, in which a pulsation rate of a continuous flow formed by the system is 5% or less.

Even when a fluid sample is fed into a microfluidic chip at a high pressure, it is possible to satisfactorily and stably produce self-assembled substance particles such as lipid nanoparticles having high size uniformity, and it is possible to mass-produce such self-assembled substance particles.

Disclosed herein are methods for preparing an elastomer composite including charging a mixing chamber with at least a solid elastomer and a filler through a ram enclosure and mixing the solid elastomer and the filler in the mixing chamber. The mixing includes moving a ram through a ram space towards the mixing chamber to push the elastomer and the filler in the ram enclosure downwards into the mixing chamber. The mixing further includes directing a flow of gas through the ram space from a vent inlet to a vent outlet disposed in the ram enclosure, the flow of gas passing through the ram space and entraining at least a portion of a vapor resulting from the mixing, and discharging the elastomer composite from the mixing chamber.