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 …

Passive and active droplet generation with microfluidics: a review

P Zhu, L Wang - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Precise and effective control of droplet generation is critical for applications of droplet
microfluidics ranging from materials synthesis to lab-on-a-chip systems. Methods for droplet …

Microfluidic formulation of topological hydrogels for microtissue engineering

KO Rojek, M Cwiklinska, J Kuczak… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics has recently emerged as a powerful tool in generation of submillimeter-sized
cell aggregates capable of performing tissue-specific functions, so-called microtissues, for …

Microfluidic fabrication of microparticles for biomedical applications

W Li, L Zhang, X Ge, B Xu, W Zhang, L Qu… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidics offers exquisite control over the flows of multiple fluids in microscale,
enabling fabrication of advanced microparticles with precisely tunable structures and …

Advances, challenges, and prospects for surgical suture materials

Y Li, Q Meng, S Chen, P Ling, MA Kuss, B Duan, S Wu - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
As one of the long-established and necessary medical devices, surgical sutures play an
essentially important role in the closing and healing of damaged tissues and organs …

Anisotropic structural color particles from colloidal phase separation

H Wang, Y Liu, Z Chen, L Sun, Y Zhao - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
Structural color materials have been studied for decades because of their fascinating
properties. Effects in this area are the trend to develop functional structural color materials …

Bioinspired helical microfibers from microfluidics

Y Yu, F Fu, L Shang, Y Cheng, Z Gu… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Helical objects are among the most important and landmark structures in nature, and
represent an emerging group of materials with unique spiral geometry; because of their …

Spinning and applications of bioinspired fiber systems

L Shang, Y Yu, Y Liu, Z Chen, T Kong, Y Zhao - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Natural fiber systems provide inspirations for artificial fiber spinning and applications.
Through a long process of trial and error, great progress has been made in recent years …

Recent advances in the microfluidic production of functional microcapsules by multiple-emulsion templating

JW Kim, SH Han, YH Choi, WM Hamonangan, Y Oh… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Multiple-emulsion drops serve as versatile templates to design functional microcapsules due
to their core–shell geometry and multiple compartments. Microfluidics has been used for the …

Multiphase flow in microfluidics: From droplets and bubbles to the encapsulated structures

A Sattari, P Hanafizadeh, M Hoorfar - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microfluidic technologies have a unique ability to control more precisely and effectively on
two-phase flow systems in comparison with macro systems. Controlling the size of the …