Natural structural materials are built at ambient temperature from a fairly limited selection of
components. They usually comprise hard and soft phases arranged in complex hierarchical …

Large-scale additive manufacturing for construction has gained momentum during the last
two decades as a promising fabrication technology that can save materials, labor, and costs …

Bulk hierarchical porous ceramics with unprecedented strength-to-weight ratio and tunable
pore sizes across three different length scales are printed by direct ink writing. Such an …

Nanoparticles-stabilized foam has recently attracted increasing attention for enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) applications, largely due to the potentially high stability of these foams in the …

The focus in the study of Pickering foams and emulsions has recently been shifting from
using inorganic particles to adopting particles of biological origin for stabilization. This shift is …

Since their invention in 1986 by Arthur Ashkin and colleagues, optical tweezers have
become an essential tool in several fields of physics, spectroscopy, biology …

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes aim to recover trapped oil left in reservoirs after
primary and secondary recovery methods. New materials and additives are needed to make …

Pickering foams are available in many applications and have been continually gaining
interest in the last two decades. Pickering foams are multifaceted, and their characteristics …

Microplastic particles have been discovered in virtually all ecosystems worldwide, yet they
may only represent the surface of a much larger issue. Nanoplastics, with dimensions well …

Recent advances in the stabilization of emulsions and foams by particles of nanoscale and
microscopic dimensions are described. Ongoing research in this highly active field is …