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  1. ; ; ; (, Physics of Fluids)
    Drop-on-demand (DOD) printing is a versatile manufacturing tool, which has been widely used in applications ranging from graphic products to manufacturing of ceramics, even for cell engineering. However, the existing DOD methods cannot be applied for highly viscous materials: the printing technologies are typically limited to the inks with the water level viscosity and fall short to eject jets from thick fluids and break them into droplets. To address this challenge, a new wire-in-a-tube technology for drop generation has been developed replacing the nozzle generator with a wire-in-a-tube drop generator. We successfully formed droplets on demand from highly viscous (∼10 Pa s) liquids and studied the mechanisms of drop formation in the wire-in-a-tube drop generators. These mechanisms couple unique fluid mechanics, capillarity, and wetting phenomena providing a new platform that can be used in different microfluidic applications. 
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