Directional liquid dynamics on superwetting interfaces

C Zhang, S Guo, X Liu, Z Guo, C Yu, Y Ning… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Directional liquid dynamics show significant interest across various fields, including energy,
environmental remediation, water harvesting, microfluidics, and heat transfer. Nature …

Magnetically responsive manipulation of droplets and bubbles

S Jiang, D Wu, J Li, J Chu, Y Hu - Droplet, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Droplets and bubbles have a wide range of applications in industry, agriculture, and daily
life, and their controllable manipulation is of significant scientific and technological …

Infinite Self‐Propulsion of Circularly On/Discharged Droplets

X Han, R **, Y Sun, K Han, P Che, X Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐propulsion of droplets in a controlled and long path at a high‐speed is crucial for
organic synthesis, pathological diagnosis and programable lab‐on‐a‐chip. To date …

Adhesion switchable transition on bio-inspired Janus surface for multi-directional droplet manipulation

K Yang, S Chen, Y Liu, Y Liang, Z Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Achieving precise and rapid droplets manipulation in versatile directions transport remains a
considerable challenge, however adhesion switchable transitions deemed to be rather …

Untethered & Stiffness‐Tunable Ferromagnetic Liquid Robots for Cleaning Thrombus in Complex Blood Vessels

Z Li, S Zhang, Q Wang, Y Xu, Y Li, X Chen… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Thrombosis is a significant threat to human health. However, the existing clinical treatment
methods have limitations. Magnetic soft matter is used in the biomedical field for years, and …

In Situ Multi‐Directional Liquid Manipulation Enabled by 3D Asymmetric Fang‐Structured Surface

S Sun, Y Zhang, S Wu, L Wang - Advanced Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Decorating surfaces with wetting gradients or topological structures is a prevailing strategy
to control uni‐directional spreading without energy input. However, current methods, limited …

Magnetic soft matter toward programmable and multifunctional miniature machines

N **a, D **, L Zhang - Accounts of Materials Research, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Miniature machines that are highly controllable have received widespread
attention due to their potential applications in smart medicine and micromanipulation …

Annelids‐Inspired Modular Design of Multi‐Modal Deformation for Magnetic Soft Robots

S Nong, Y Sun, B Sun, X Li, Z Zhu, J Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic‐responsive soft materials have found extensive applications in biomedicine,
robotics, and bionics. They can achieve complex deformations through structural design …

Recent Advances in Magnetically Actuated Droplet Manipulation for Biomedical Applications

J Li, K Su, H Liu, Y Zou - Magnetochemistry, 2024 - mdpi.com
The manipulation of droplets plays a vital role in biomedicine, chemistry, and
hydromechanics, especially in microfluidics. Magnetic droplet manipulation has emerged as …

CART: Carrier‐Based Actuatable and Reprogrammable Transport

NK Mandsberg, JA Serna… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Remote manipulation of microcargo is essential for miniaturized automated experiments in
fields such as biology, chemistry, and diagnostics, allowing efficient use of scarce …