Droplet microarrays: from surface patterning to high‐throughput applications

W Feng, E Ueda, PA Levkin - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput screening of live cells and chemical reactions in isolated droplets is an
important and growing method in areas ranging from studies of gene functions and the …

Micro‐/nanostructured interface for liquid manipulation and its applications

Y Zuo, L Zheng, C Zhao, H Liu - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the relationship between liquid manipulation and micro‐/nanostructured
interfaces has gained much attention due to the wide potential applications in many fields …

Ultrasensitive SERS-based plasmonic sensor with analyte enrichment system produced by direct laser writing

G Pavliuk, D Pavlov, E Mitsai, O Vitrik, A Mironenko… - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
We report an easy-to-implement device for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-
based detection of various analytes dissolved in water droplets at trace concentrations. The …

Surface nanodroplets: formation, dissolution, and applications

J Qian, GF Arends, X Zhang - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
Droplets at solid–liquid interfaces play essential roles in a broad range of fields, such as
compartmentalized chemical reactions and conversions, high-throughput analysis and …

Renewable superwettable biochip for miRNA detection

T Wu, T Xu, Y Chen, Y Yang, LP Xu, X Zhang… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biochips are a collection of miniaturized test sites (microarrays), which enable researchers
to quickly screen large numbers of biological analytes, have become one of the most …

Influence of solution composition on the formation of surface nanodroplets by solvent exchange

Z Lu, S Peng, X Zhang - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Solvent exchange is a simple process of forming surface nanodroplets on an immersed
substrate. In this process, the droplets nucleate and grow in response to transient …

Solvent effects on the formation of surface nanodroplets by solvent exchange

Z Lu, H Xu, H Zeng, X Zhang - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
Solvent exchange is a simple process to form oil nanodroplets at solid–liquid interfaces with
well-defined location and morphology. In this process, a good solvent of the oil is displaced …

Self-Assembled Pico-Liter Droplet Microarray for Ultrasensitive Nucleic Acid Quantification

TM Yen, T Zhang, PW Chen, TH Ku, YJ Chiu, I Lian… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Nucleic acid detection and quantification technologies have made remarkable progress in
recent years. Among existing platforms, hybridization-based assays have the advantages of …

Controlling arbitrary humidity without convection

PS Wasnik, HE N'guessan, R Tadmor - Journal of colloid and interface …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper we show a way that allows for the first time to induce arbitrary humidity of
desired value for systems without convective flow. To enable this novelty we utilize a semi …

Spherical and sessile droplet dynamics by fluctuating hydrodynamics

JB Bell, A Nonaka, AL Garcia - Physics of Fluids, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
We simulate the mesoscopic dynamics of droplets formed by phase-separated fluids at
nanometer scales where thermal fluctuations are significant. Both spherical droplets fully …