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Bioinspired materials for droplet manipulation: Principles, methods and applications
Droplet, 2022 Droplet manipulation techniques such as transport and merging have been widely used in many fields including biology, chemistry, material and energy applications.
Jinkai Xu +4 more
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Magnetic Janus origami robot for cross-scale droplet omni-manipulation
Nature Communications, 2023 The versatile manipulation of cross-scale droplets is essential in many fields. Magnetic excitation is widely used for droplet manipulation due to its distinguishing merits.
Shaojun Jiang +19 more
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Compound droplet manipulations on fiber arrays [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2015 Recent works demonstrated that fiber arrays may constitue the basis of an open digital microfluidics. Various processes, such as droplet motion, fragmentation, trapping, release, mixing and encapsulation, may be achieved on fiber arrays. However, handling a large number of tiny droplets resulting from the mixing of several liquid components is still a ...
Weyer, Floriane +3 more
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Advances in Microscale Droplet Generation and Manipulation
Langmuir, 2023 Microscale droplet generation and manipulation have widespread applications in numerous fields, from biochemical assays to printing and additive manufacturing. There are several techniques for droplet handling. Most techniques, however, can generate and work with only a limited range of droplet sizes.
Rutvik Lathia +5 more
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Programmable droplet manipulation enabled by charged‐surface pattern reconfiguration
Droplet, 2023 Programmable droplet manipulation based on external stimulation is in high demand in various modern technologies. Despite notable progress, current manipulation strategies still suffer from a common drawback such as single control means of modulating the
Duokui Fang +6 more
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Manipulation of coacervate droplets with an electric field
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022 Many biopolymers are highly charged, and as in the case of many polymer mixtures, they tend to phase separate as a natural consequence of chain connectivity and an associated relatively low entropy of polymer mixing. Recently, it has become appreciated that the phase-separated structures formed by such polyelectrolyte blends, called “complex ...
Agrawal, Aman +3 more
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Particle Manipulation Methods in Droplet Microfluidics [PDF]
Analytical Chemistry, 2017 This Feature describes the different particle manipulation techniques available in the droplet microfluidics toolbox to handle particles encapsulated inside droplets and to manipulate whole droplets. We address the advantages and disadvantages of the different techniques to guide new users.
Maria Tenje +3 more
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Electric field assisted motion of a mercury droplet
Scientific Reports, 2021 Field-assisted self-assembly, motion, and manipulation of droplets have gained much attention in the past decades. We exhibit an electric field manipulation of the motion of a liquid metal (mercury) droplet submerged in a conductive liquid medium (a ...
Gábor Holló +3 more
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Gels, 2023 Hydrogel droplets are biodegradable and biocompatible materials with promising applications in tissue engineering, cell encapsulation, and clinical treatments.
Mohamad Orabi, Joe F. Lo
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Hydrophilic hard-magnetic soft robots: A new approach for precise droplet manipulation [PDF]
Nanotechnology and Precision EngineeringPrecise droplet manipulation is critical in material synthesis, biochemical detection, and tissue engineering. However, the droplet velocity and volume manipulated by magnetic techniques are restricted owing to the low magnetic force exerted on magnetic ...
Xiao Sun +7 more
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