Polymers and biopolymers at interfaces

AR Hall, M Geoghegan - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This review updates recent progress in the understanding of the behaviour of polymers at
surfaces and interfaces, highlighting examples in the areas of wetting, dewetting …

Formation of polystyrene microlenses via transient droplets from the ouzo effect for enhanced optical imaging

Y Wang, B Zeng, Y Zhao, S Li… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Lens-shaped microstructures on solid surfaces are important for a variety of applications,
such as enhanced water harvesting, super-resolution imaging, and antireflection. Here the …

Synthesis of nanomaterials using top-down methods

F Chen, TH Yan, S Bashir, JL Liu - Advanced Nanomaterials and Their …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanomaterial synthesis procedures that are scalable, cheap, and green are not common.
Several synthesis strategies are discussed with a focus on top-down syntheses. Here, ball …

Aligned droplet patterns by dewetting of polymer bilayers

M Chiu, JA Wood, A Widmer-Cooper, C Neto - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Dewetting of polymer thin films has been extensively studied in the past two decades as an
approach to produce patterned surfaces. Here we report a novel phenomenon where …

Formation, growth and applications of femtoliter droplets on a microlens

L Lei, J Li, H Yu, L Bao, S Peng, X Zhang - … Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Formation and growth of femtoliter droplets on surface microstructures are important in many
fundamental and practical interfacial processes, such as water collection, vapour …

High-resolution imaging and fast number estimation of suspended particles using dewetted polymer microlenses in a microfluidic channel

S Mishra, MM Kulkarni, A Verma - Micron, 2021 - Elsevier
We have fabricated polymer micro-lens array by self-organized dewetting inside the
microchannel, which shows remarkable enhancement in the resolution, contrast and more …

Formation of Surface Protic Ionic Liquid Nanodroplets for Nanofabrication

H Yu, BP Dyett, SK Pathirannahalage… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Femtoliter droplets at solid interfaces attract significant interest as the basic units in many
physical and biological processes. One challenge in the application of these tiny droplets is …