Building reconfigurable devices using complex liquid–fluid interfaces

J Forth, PY Kim, G Xie, X Liu, BA Helms… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid–fluid interfaces provide a platform both for structuring liquids into complex shapes
and assembling dimensionally confined, functional nanomaterials. Historically, attention in …

Shape‐Changing Particles: From Materials Design and Mechanisms to Implementation

N Tanjeem, MB Minnis, RC Hayward… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Demands for next‐generation soft and responsive materials have sparked recent interest in
the development of shape‐changing particles and particle assemblies. Over the last two …

Anisotropic microparticles from microfluidics

L Cai, F Bian, H Chen, J Guo, Y Wang, Y Zhao - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
Anisotropic microparticles have attracted extensive scientific interest in recent years due to
their special morphology, complex components, and ability to incorporate diverse functions …

Acoustically manipulating internal structure of disk-in-sphere endoskeletal droplets

G Shakya, T Yang, Y Gao, AK Fajrial, B Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Manipulation of micro/nano particles has been well studied and demonstrated by optical,
electromagnetic, and acoustic approaches, or their combinations. Manipulation of internal …

Microfluidic production of size-tunable hexadecane-in-water emulsions: Effect of droplet size on destabilization of two-dimensional emulsions due to partial …

S Abedi, NS Suteria, CC Chen, SA Vanapalli - Journal of colloid and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Despite numerous studies, the mechanism of destabilization of oil-in-water
emulsions during cooling-heating cycles is unclear due to indirect measurements and lack …

Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: triplet shape and restructuring

P Dahiya, A DeBenedictis, TJ Atherton, M Caggioni… - Soft Matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The stability of shapes formed by three viscoelastic droplets during their arrested
coalescence has been investigated using micromanipulation experiments. Addition of a third …

Microfluidic production of endoskeleton droplets with controlled size and shape

M Caggioni, D Traini, PM Young, PT Spicer - Powder Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Oil-in-water emulsion droplets, containing an elastic endoskeleton that holds the droplets in
various non-spherical shapes, are formed by crystallizing a portion of the oil phase into a …

Arrested coalescence of viscoelastic droplets: Ellipsoid shape effects and reorientation

C Hao, Z Xie, TJ Atherton, PT Spicer - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
The stable configurations formed by two poroelastic, ellipsoid-shaped droplets during their
arrested coalescence have been investigated using micromanipulation experiments …

A nanosheet-based combination emulsifier system for bulk-scale production of emulsions with elongated droplets and long-term stability

N Anjum, YW Chang, SA Vanapalli - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigate the emulsion type, droplet morphology and emulsion stability
that can be achieved using a novel combination emulsifier system which consists of water …

Magnetite nanoparticles program the assembly, response, and reconfiguration of structured emulsions

TA Prileszky, EM Furst - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Endoskeletal droplets—non-spherical emulsion droplets that respond to external stimuli with
shape change—are modified with ferromagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles to make them …