SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AEROSOLS

摘要

Aerosols can be created by filament stretching and breaking of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids by applying a strain to and stretching the fluid. The fluid is stretched along a strain pathway and forms a fluid filament. The fluid filament is caused to break into droplets that can be harvested to form a mist or aerosol. Such a system for aerosol creation can include a pair of counter-rotating rollers (100, 102) that are positioned adjacent to each other that stretch the fluid or a pair of pistons (200, 202) that move toward and away from each other to stretch the fluid.