Advances of spontaneous emulsification and its important applications in enhanced oil recovery process

Z Li, D Xu, Y Yuan, H Wu, J Hou, W Kang… - Advances in colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Multidimensional design of anisotropic polymer particles from solvent‐evaporative emulsion

KH Ku, JM Shin, H Yun, GR Yi… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal particles with controlled shape and internal structure have attracted great attention
due to their novel morphologies and various potential applications. Among the diverse …

Osmotic-induced reconfiguration and activation in membranized coacervate-based protocells

Y Zhang, Z Wang, M Li, C Xu, N Gao, Z Yin… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The design and construction of synthetic protocells capable of stimuli response and
homeostatic regulation is an important challenge for synthetic protobiology. Here, we …

Liquid-in-liquid printing of 3D and mechanically tunable conductive hydrogels

X **e, Z Xu, X Yu, H Jiang, H Li, W Feng - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Conductive hydrogels require tunable mechanical properties, high conductivity and
complicated 3D structures for advanced functionality in (bio) applications. Here, we report a …

Thermo‐responsive microcapsules with tunable molecular permeability for controlled encapsulation and release

YH Choi, JS Hwang, SH Han, CS Lee… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Microcapsules with regulated transmembrane transport are of great importance for various
applications. The membranes with a tunable cut‐off threshold of permeation provide …

Discovery and insights into organized spontaneous emulsification via interfacial self-assembly of amphiphilic bottlebrush block copolymers

X Chen, X Yang, DP Song, YF Men, Y Li - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Since the first discovery of spontaneous emulsification, the process has remained
uncontrollable for centuries leading to unstable emulsion droplets with limited uses. Herein …

Oxidation control of bottlebrush molecular conformation for producing libraries of photonic structures

YL Li, X Chen, HK Geng, Y Dong… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly is important for creating photonic structures and structural color is typically
tunable by varying the size of building blocks, which are themselves obtained after time …

Structured Liquids with pH-Triggered Reconfigurability.

C Huang, Z Sun, M Cui, F Liu, BA Helms… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2016 - europepmc.org
Through pH-tuning of electrostatic interactions between polymer ligands and nanoparticles
at structured-liquid interfaces, liquid droplets can be directed between a jammed …

Reconfiguration and reorganization of bottlebrush polymer surfactants

HG Seong, Z Chen, T Emrick… - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bottlebrush random copolymers (BRCPs), having randomly distributed hydrophilic and
hydrophobic side chains, are shown to reconfigure into hydrophilic‐rich and hydrophobic …

Self‐Assembly of Nanoparticles in 2D and 3D: Recent Advances and Future Trends

SK Ghosh, A Böker - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
For more than a century, it has been known that emulsions consisting of two immiscible
liquids can be rendered from coalescence by means of solid particles, coined as Pickering …