Ferrofluids and bio-ferrofluids: Looking back and stepping forward

V Socoliuc, MV Avdeev, V Kuncser, R Turcu… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ferrofluids investigated along for about five decades are ultrastable colloidal suspensions of
magnetic nanoparticles, which manifest simultaneously fluid and magnetic properties. Their …

Smart droplets stabilized by designer surfactants: from biomimicry to active motion to materials healing

Z Yang, D Snyder, A Sathyan, A Balazs… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The science and technologies of emulsion droplets have been a long‐term focus of
extensive research endeavors for their practical utility across a breadth of industries …

Reconfigurable magnetic liquid metal robot for high-performance droplet manipulation

Y Zhang, S Jiang, Y Hu, T Wu, Y Zhang, H Li, A Li… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Droplet manipulation is crucial for diverse applications ranging from bioassay to medical
diagnosis. Current magnetic-field-driven manipulation strategies are mainly based on fixed …

Permanent fluidic magnets for liquid bioelectronics

X Zhao, Y Zhou, Y Song, J Xu, J Li, T Tat, G Chen… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Brownian motion allows microscopically dispersed nanoparticles to be stable in ferrofluids,
as well as causes magnetization relaxation and prohibits permanent magnetism. Here we …

Reversible morphology-resolved chemotactic actuation and motion of Janus emulsion droplets

BD Frank, S Djalali, AW Baryzewska, P Giusto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We report, for the first time, a chemotactic motion of emulsion droplets that can be
controllably and reversibly altered. Our approach is based on using biphasic Janus …

Stabilizing liquids using interfacial supramolecular assemblies

P Gu, X Luo, S Zhou, D Wang, Z Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stabilizing liquids based on supramolecular assembly (non‐covalent intermolecular
interactions) has attracted significant interest, due to the increasing demand for soft, liquid …

Relaxing wrinkles in jammed interfacial assemblies

G Xie, S Zhu, PY Kim, S Jiang, Q Yi, P Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic covalent bonding has emerged as a mean by which stresses in a network can be
relaxed. Here, the strength of the bonding of ligands to nanoparticles at the interface …

Shape-reconfigurable ferrofluids

S Zhao, JY Zhang, Y Fu, S Zhu, HC Shum, X Liu… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ferrofluids (FFs) can adapt their shape to a magnetic field. However, they cannot maintain
their shape when the magnetic field is removed. Here, with a magneto-responsive and …

Aquabots

S Zhu, G Xie, H Cui, Q Li, J Forth, S Yuan, J Tian… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Soft robots, made from elastomers, easily bend and flex, but deformability constraints
severely limit navigation through and within narrow, confined spaces. Using aqueous two …

Chemistry, applications, and future prospects of structured liquids

A Ghaffarkhah, SA Hashemi, AA Isari… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Structured liquids are emerging functional soft materials that combine liquid flowability with
solid-like structural stability and spatial organization. Here, we delve into the chemistry and …