Patent ID: 7341211
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: B05B

Abstract:
1. A device used to produce steady capillary jets and liquid drops of at least one of micrometric and nanometric size, comprising: a plurality of fluids; a plurality of concentrically arranged capillary tubes, wherein each capillary tube of said plurality of concentrically arranged capillary tubes is surrounded by and transports a fluid i selected from the plurality of fluids and having a flow-rate Q wherein i is an integer from 1 to N and N is equal to or greater than 1, wherein each said capillary tube of said plurality of concentrically arranged capillary tubes is connected to an electric potential V wherein each fluid transported by a corresponding capillary tube is immiscible with an adjacent fluid transported by an adjacent capillary tube; an electrode, connected to an electric potential V