Reconfigurable Liquid‐Bodied Miniature Machines: Magnetic Control and Microrobotic Applications

Q Wang, N Xiang, J Lang, B Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft miniature machines demonstrate multimodal actuation and morphology change
capabilities in narrow spaces smaller than their dimension. The wirelessly controlled soft …

Associative liquid‐in‐liquid 3D printing techniques for freeform fabrication of soft matter

H Honaryar, S Amirfattahi, Z Niroobakhsh - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shaping soft materials into prescribed 3D complex designs has been challenging yet
feasible using various 3D printing technologies. For a broader range of soft matters to be …

Functional Janus structured liquids and aerogels

A Ghaffarkhah, SA Hashemi, F Ahmadijokani… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Janus structures have unique properties due to their distinct functionalities on opposing
faces, but have yet to be realized with flowing liquids. We demonstrate such Janus liquids …

Liquid‐Templating Aerogels

SA Hashemi, A Ghaffarkhah, M Goodarzi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modern materials science has witnessed the era of advanced fabrication methods to
engineer functionality from the nano‐to macroscales. Versatile fabrication and additive …

Phase-separation facilitated one-step fabrication of multiscale heterogeneous two-aqueous-phase gel

F Chen, X Li, Y Yu, Q Li, H Lin, L Xu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Engineering heterogeneous hydrogels with distinct phases at various lengths, which
resemble biological tissues with high complexity, remains challenging by existing fabricating …

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 …

Reconfigurable aqueous 3D printing with adaptive dual locks

Y Fu, Z Li, S Zhao, H Hou, Y Chai - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Using aqueous two-phase systems (ATPSs) for three-dimensional (3D) printed complex
structures has attracted considerable attention in the field of biomedicine. In this study, we …

Thermal Welding of Liquids

Y Wen, K Li, J Luo, W Feng, S Shi - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Welding of thermoplastics is a common practice in many industrial sectors, but it has yet to
be realized with fluids. Here, the thermal welding of liquids by using the assembly and …

Vascular network-inspired fluidic system (VasFluidics) with spatially functionalizable membranous walls

Y Yu, Y Pan, Y Shen, J Tian, R Zhang, W Guo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In vascular networks, the transport across different vessel walls regulates chemical
compositions in blood over space and time. Replicating such trans-wall transport with spatial …

Interfacial jamming of surface-alkylated synthetic nanocelluloses for structuring liquids

H Kamada, Y Hata, K Sugiura, T Sawada… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanocelluloses derived from natural cellulose sources are promising sustainable
nanomaterials. Previous studies have reported that nanocelluloses are strongly adsorbed …