Emerging droplet microfluidics

L Shang, Y Cheng, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Droplet microfluidics generates and manipulates discrete droplets through immiscible
multiphase flows inside microchannels. Due to its remarkable advantages, droplet …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals: from intricate structures to functional materials

MA Boles, M Engel, DV Talapin - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Microfluidics-enabled soft manufacture of materials with tailorable wettability

P Zhu, L Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics and wettability are interrelated and mutually reinforcing fields, experiencing
synergistic growth. Surface wettability is paramount in regulating microfluidic flows for …

Droplet based microfluidics

R Seemann, M Brinkmann, T Pfohl… - Reports on progress …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Droplet based microfluidics is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research combining
soft matter physics, biochemistry and microsystems engineering. Its applications range from …

Colloidal capsules: nano-and microcapsules with colloidal particle shells

T Bollhorst, K Rezwan, M Maas - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Utilizing colloidal particles for the assembly of the shell of nano-and microcapsules holds
great promise for the tailor-made design of new functional materials. Increasing research …

Colloidal assembly: the road from particles to colloidal molecules and crystals

F Li, DP Josephson, A Stein - … Chemie International Edition, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal particles may be considered as building blocks for materials, just like atoms are the
bricks of molecules, macromolecules, and crystals. Periodic arrays of colloids (colloidal …

Porous polymer particles—A comprehensive guide to synthesis, characterization, functionalization and applications

MT Gokmen, FE Du Prez - Progress in polymer science, 2012 - Elsevier
This review is written to fulfill the need of a comprehensive guide for the manufacture of
porous polymer particles. The synthesis section discusses and for the first time compares …

Unusually stable liquid foams

E Rio, W Drenckhan, A Salonen, D Langevin - Advances in colloid and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Obtaining stable liquid foams is an important issue in view of their numerous applications. In
some of these, the liquid foam in itself is of interest, in others, the liquid foam acts as a …

Multiphase microreactors based on liquid–liquid and gas–liquid dispersions stabilized by colloidal catalytic particles

D Dedovets, Q Li, L Leclercq… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Pickering emulsions, foams, bubbles, and marbles are dispersions of two immiscible liquids
or of a liquid and a gas stabilized by surface‐active colloidal particles. These systems can …

Microfluidic platforms toward rational material fabrication for biomedical applications

Q Zhao, H Cui, Y Wang, X Du - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of micro/nanomaterials in recent decades has brought promising alternative
approaches in various biomedicine‐related fields such as pharmaceutics, diagnostics, and …