From colloidal particles to photonic crystals: advances in self-assembly and their emerging applications

Z Cai, Z Li, S Ravaine, M He, Y Song, Y Yin… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

Polymer-based responsive structural color materials

H Wang, H Zhang, Z Chen, Y Zhao, Z Gu… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer-based responsive structural color materials are polymers with ordered
microstructures that can change colors. They offer unique advantages and present a novel …

Airflow triggered water film self-sculpturing on femtosecond laser-induced heterogeneously wetted micro/nanostructured surfaces

P Yang, K Yin, X Song, L Wang, Q Deng, J Pei… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Liquid manipulation is essential for daily life and modern industry, and it is widely used in
various fields, including seawater desalination, microfluidic robots, and biomedical …

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 …

Microfluidics for drug development: from synthesis to evaluation

Y Liu, L Sun, H Zhang, L Shang, Y Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

Programmable wettability on photocontrolled graphene film

J Wang, W Gao, H Zhang, M Zou, Y Chen, Y Zhao - Science Advances, 2018 - science.org
Surface materials with specific wettability play important roles in a wide variety of areas from
science to industry. We present a novel paraffin-infused porous graphene film (PIPGF) with …

Electrostatic tweezer for droplet manipulation

Y **, W Xu, H Zhang, R Li, J Sun, S Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Various physical tweezers for manipulating liquid droplets based on optical, electrical,
magnetic, acoustic, or other external fields have emerged and revolutionized research and …

Nano/micro‐manufacturing of bioinspired materials: a review of methods to mimic natural structures

C Zhang, DA Mcadams, JC Grunlan - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Through billions of years of evolution and natural selection, biological systems have
developed strategies to achieve advantageous unification between structure and bulk …

Noncontact charge shielding knife for liquid microfluidics

X Han, S Tan, R **, L Jiang… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multibehavioral droplet manipulation in a precise and programmed manner is crucial for
stoichiometry, biological virus detection, and intelligent lab-on-a-chip. Apart from …

Noncontact Microfluidics of Highly Viscous Liquids for Accurate Self‐Splitting and Pipetting

X Han, S Tan, Q Wang, X Zuo, L Heng… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate dosing for various liquids, especially for highly viscous liquids, is fundamental in
wide‐ranging from molecular crosslinking to material processing. Despite droppers or …