In the past decade, nanotechnology's rapid developments have created quite a lot of
prospects for researchers and engineers to check up on. And nanofluids are important …

Diffusiophoresis is the spontaneous motion of particles under a concentration gradient of
solutes. Since the first recognition by Derjaguin and colleagues in 1947 in the form of …

Osmosis is a universal phenomenon occurring in a broad variety of processes and fields. It
is the archetype of entropic forces, both trivial in its fundamental expression–the van't Hoff …

Fluid transport that is driven by gradients of pressure, gravity, or electro-magnetic potential is
well-known and studied in many fields. A subtler type of transport, called diffusiophoresis …

The past decade has seen intriguing reports and heated debates concerning the chemically-
driven enhanced motion of objects ranging from small molecules to millimetre-size synthetic …

In this review, we cover recent advances in microfluidic colloid separation enabled by
diffusiophoresis. Diffusiophoresis describes the motion of colloidal particles induced by local …

The healthy growth and maintenance of a biological system depends on the precise spatial
organization of molecules within the cell through the dissipation of energy. Reaction …

A colloidal particle placed in an inhomogeneous solution of smaller nonadsorbing polymers
will move towards regions of lower polymer concentration in order to reduce the free energy …

The transport of nanoparticles in biological hydrogels is often hindered by the strong
confinement of the media, thus limiting important applications such as drug delivery and …

Equilibrium interactions between particles in aqueous suspensions are limited to distances
less than 1 μm. Here, we describe a versatile concept to design and engineer …