Microfluidics-enabled soft manufacture of materials with tailorable wettability

P Zhu, L Wang - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics and wettability are interrelated and mutually reinforcing fields, experiencing
synergistic growth. Surface wettability is paramount in regulating microfluidic flows for …

Overflow control for sustainable development by superwetting surface with biomimetic structure

S Zhou, L Jiang, Z Dong - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Liquid flowing around a solid edge, ie, overflow, is a commonly observed flow behavior.
Recent research into surface wetting properties and microstructure-controlled overflow …

Functional Janus structured liquids and aerogels

A Ghaffarkhah, SA Hashemi, F Ahmadijokani… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Janus structures have unique properties due to their distinct functionalities on opposing
faces, but have yet to be realized with flowing liquids. We demonstrate such Janus liquids …

Liquid‐Templating Aerogels

SA Hashemi, A Ghaffarkhah, M Goodarzi… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modern materials science has witnessed the era of advanced fabrication methods to
engineer functionality from the nano‐to macroscales. Versatile fabrication and additive …

Self‐assembly of MXene‐surfactants at liquid–liquid interfaces: from structured liquids to 3D aerogels

S Shi, B Qian, X Wu, H Sun, H Wang… - Angewandte chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes), a class of emerging
nanomaterials with intriguing properties, have attracted significant attention in recent years …

Bottlebrush polymers at liquid interfaces: Assembly dynamics, mechanical properties, and all-liquid printed constructs

HG Seong, Z Fink, Z Chen, T Emrick, TP Russell - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bottlebrush polymer surfactants (BPSs), formed by the interfacial interactions between
bottlebrush polymers (BPs) with poly (acrylic acid) side chains dissolved in an aqueous …

4D printing of multi‐stimuli responsive protein‐based hydrogels for autonomous shape transformations

B Narupai, PT Smith, A Nelson - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli responsive hydrogels that can change shape in response to applied external stimuli
are appealing for soft robotics, biomedical devices, drug delivery, and actuators. However …

Nanoarchitectonics for coordination asymmetry and related chemistry

K Ariga, M Shionoya - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Nanoarchitectonics is a concept envisioned to produce functional materials from nanoscale
units through fusion of nanotechnology with other scientific disciplines. For component …

Liquid-embedded (bio) printing of alginate-free, standalone, ultrafine, and ultrathin-walled cannular structures

G Tang, Z Luo, L Lian, J Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
While there has been considerable success in the three-dimensional bioprinting of relatively
large standalone filamentous tissues, the fabrication of solid fibers with ultrafine diameters or …

Bioinspired superwetting open microfluidics: from concepts, phenomena to applications

Y Si, C Li, J Hu, C Zhang, Z Dong - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidics and bioinspired superwetting materials, as two crucial branches of scientific
research, are entering their golden age of development. As an emerging interdisciplinary …