%0 Journal Article %J Biomicrofluidics %D 2011 %T Controlling droplet incubation using close-packed plug flow %A Mary, Pascaline %A Abate, Adam R. %A Agresti, Jeremy J. %A Weitz, David A %X Controlling droplet incubation is critical for droplet-based microfluidic applications; however, current techniques are either of limited precision or place strict limits on the incubation times that can be achieved. Here, we present a simple technique to control incubation time by exploiting close-packed plug flow. In contrast to other techniques, this technique is applicable to very short and very long incubation times. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3576934] %B Biomicrofluidics %V 5 %P 024101 %G eng %U https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3576934 %N 2