Liquid marbles: review of recent progress in physical properties, formation techniques, and lab-in-a-marble applications in microreactors and biosensors

M Tenjimbayashi, T Mouterde, PK Roy, K Uto - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid marbles (LMs) are nonsticking droplets whose surfaces are covered with low-
wettability particles. Owing to their high mobility, shape reconfigurability, and widely …

Solid–liquid host–guest composites: The marriage of porous solids and functional liquids

Z Sheng, Y Ding, G Li, C Fu, Y Hou, J Lyu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Composite materials can provide remarkable improvements over the individual constituents.
Especially, with a liquid component introduced into a solid porous host, solid–liquid host …

Inclination‐enabled generalized microfluid rectifiers via anisotropic slippery hollow tracks

S Zhu, X Li, Y Bian, N Dai, J Yong, Y Hu… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The power of spontaneous maneuvering of microfluids that allow gas or liquid to penetrate
along a single direction, is usually endowed with the wettability gradient and the Laplace …

Alignment of MXene based membranes to enhance water purification

M Tao, SQ Cheng, XL Han, F Yi, RH Li, Y Rong… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane-based separation techniques are crucial for mitigating the pollution of aquatic
environments and addressing challenges associated with water scarcity. Controlling the …

Airflow triggered water film self-sculpturing on femtosecond laser-induced heterogeneously wetted micro/nanostructured surfaces

P Yang, K Yin, X Song, L Wang, Q Deng, J Pei… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Liquid manipulation is essential for daily life and modern industry, and it is widely used in
various fields, including seawater desalination, microfluidic robots, and biomedical …

Host-guest liquid gating mechanism with specific recognition interface behavior for universal quantitative chemical detection

H Wang, Y Fan, Y Hou, B Chen, J Lei, S Yu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Universal visual quantitative chemical detection technology has emerged as an increasingly
crucial tool for convenient testing with immediate results in the fields of environmental …

Liquid gating meniscus‐shaped deformable magnetoelastic membranes with self‐driven regulation of gas/liquid release

J Liu, X Xu, Y Lei, M Zhang, Z Sheng… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid gating membranes have been demonstrated to show unprecedented properties of
dynamicity, stability, adaptivity, and stimulus‐responsiveness. Most recently, smart liquid …

Nontoxic liquid-infused slippery coating prepared on steel substrates inhibits corrosion and biofouling adhesion

AB Tesler, LH Prado, I Thievessen… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Wetting of surfaces plays a vital role in many biological and industrial processes. There are
several phenomena closely related to wetting such as biofouling and corrosion that cause …

MoS2 Lubricating Film Meets Supramolecular Gel: A Novel Composite Lubricating System for Space Applications

J Zhang, D Jiang, D Wang, Q Yu, Y Bai… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the field of space mechanical lubrication, to improve the reliability and life of space
lubrication, solid lubricating film–liquid lubricant composite lubrication has been used in …

2D semiconductor nanosheets for solar photocatalysis

M Cai, Y Wei, Y Li, X Li, S Wang, G Shao, P Zhang - EcoEnergy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the advancing world of graphene, highly anisotropic 2D semiconductor nanosheets,
notable for their nanometer‐scale thickness, have emerged as a leading innovation …