Over the past two decades, advances in droplet-based microfluidics have facilitated new
approaches to process and analyze samples with unprecedented levels of precision and …

Emulsions, including oil-in-water (O/W) and water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions, can play important
roles in both controlling reservoir conformance and displacing residual oil for enhanced oil …

Soft robotics aims at creating systems with improved performance of movement and
adaptability in unknown, challenging, environments and with higher level of safety during …

Medium-and long-chain alkanes and their mixtures possess a remarkable physical property–
they form intermediate structured phases between their isotropic liquid phase and their fully …

High modulus carbon fibers (CFs) are widely desirable in aerospace, robotics, etc. However,
their high degree of graphite microcrystalline structure leads to poor interfacial properties …

Hypothesis Upon cooling, alkanes can form intermediate phases between liquid and crystal.
They are called “rotator” or “plastic” phases and have long-range positional order with …

Rotator phases are rotationally disordered plastic crystals, some of which can form upon
freezing of alkane at alkane–water interfaces. Existing X-ray diffraction studies show only …

ABSTRACT Introduction Ionizable lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have been proven to have high
encapsulation, cellular uptake, and effective endosomal escape and are therefore promising …

Accurate prediction of alkane phase transitions involving solids is needed to prevent
catastrophic pipeline blockages, improve lubrication formulations, smart insulation, and …

For almost 200 y, the dominant approach to understand oil-on-water droplet shape and
stability has been the thermodynamic expectation of minimized energy, yet parallel literature …