Tumor inside a pearl drop

T Arbatan, A Al‐Abboodi, F Sarvi… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid marbles are exploited in this study as efficient miniature bioreactors inoculated with
Hep G2 (hepatocellular carcinoma) cells to culture cell spheroids in vitro. This method …

Transparent and Gas‐Permeable Liquid Marbles for Culturing and Drug Sensitivity Test of Tumor Spheroids

H Li, P Liu, G Kaur, X Yao… - Advanced healthcare …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Transparent nanoparticle‐based liquid marbles with high gas‐permeability are prepared to
culture tumor spheroids in 3D without the need of supplementary growth factor. The culturing …

On‐Demand Coalescence and Splitting of Liquid Marbles and Their Bioapplications

B Wang, KF Chan, F Ji, Q Wang, PWY Chiu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coalescence and splitting of liquid marbles (LMs) are critical for the mixture of precise
amount precursors and removal of the wastes in the microliter range. Here, the coalescence …

Mammalian cell cryopreservation by using liquid marbles

MC Serrano, S Nardecchia, MC Gutiérrez… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Liquid marbles (LMs) are nonsticky droplets covered by micro-or nanometrically scaled
particles and obtained by simply rolling small amounts of a liquid in a very hydrophobic …

Naked liquid marbles: a robust three-dimensional low-volume cell-culturing system

M Chen, MP Shah, TB Shelper… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) multicellular structures allow cells to behave and interact with each
other in a manner that mimics the in vivo environment. In recent years, many 3D cell culture …

The potential of liquid marbles for biomedical applications: a critical review

NM Oliveira, RL Reis, JF Mano - Advanced healthcare …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid marbles (LM) are freestanding droplets covered by micro/nanoparticles with
hydrophobic/hydrophilic properties, which can be manipulated as a soft solid. The …

Liquid Marbles for High‐Throughput Biological Screening of Anchorage‐Dependent Cells

NM Oliveira, CR Correia, RL Reis… - Advanced healthcare …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Stable liquid marbles (LM) are produced by coating liquid droplets with a hydrophobic
powder. The used hydrophobic powder is produced by fluorosilanization of diatomaceous …

Cutting and Bonding Parafilm® to Fast Prototyping Flexible Hanging Drop Chips for 3D Spheroid Cultures

JJ Fu, XH Lv, LX Wang, X He, Y Li, L Yu… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
A fast and low-cost fabrication process of flexible hanging drop chips for 3D spheroid
cultures was proposed by cutting and bonding Parafilm®, a cohesive thermoplastic. The …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid marble as bioreactor for engineering three-dimensional toroid tissues

RK Vadivelu, H Kamble, A Munaz, NT Nguyen - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Liquid marble is a liquid droplet coated with hydrophobic powder that can be used as a
bioreactor. This paper reports the three-dimensional self-assembly and culture of a cell …

Transparent bioreactors based on nanoparticle-coated liquid marbles for in situ observation of suspending embryonic body formation and differentiation

K Lin, R Chen, L Zhang, D Zang, X Geng… - ACS applied materials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Transparent liquid marbles coated with hydrophobic silica nanoparticles were used as micro-
bioreactors for embryonic stem cell (ESC) culturing. The high transparency of silica liquid …