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 …

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 …

New insights into water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) double emulsions: Properties, fabrication, instability mechanism, and food applications

A Kumar, R Kaur, V Kumar, S Kumar, R Gehlot… - Trends in Food Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Nowadays people demand for healthy, convenient, and wholesome foods.
Double emulsions have attracted widespread attention in the food industry owing to their …

Recent advances in droplet microfluidics

Y Ding, PD Howes, AJ deMello - Analytical chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Prominent within this technology set are droplet-based microfluidic systems, 3 in which
passive microfluidic structures are used to rapidly generate and manipulate subnanoliter …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrophilic surface modification of PDMS for droplet microfluidics using a simple, quick, and robust method via PVA deposition

T Trantidou, Y Elani, E Parsons, O Ces - Microsystems & …, 2017 - nature.com
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a dominant material in the fabrication of microfluidic
devices to generate water-in-oil droplets, particularly lipid-stabilized droplets, because of its …

Bioinspired polymer vesicles and membranes for biological and medical applications

CG Palivan, R Goers, A Najer, X Zhang, A Car… - Chemical society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological membranes play an essential role in living organisms by providing stable and
functional compartments, preserving cell architecture, whilst supporting signalling and …

Droplet based microfluidics

R Seemann, M Brinkmann, T Pfohl… - Reports on progress …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Droplet based microfluidics is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research combining
soft matter physics, biochemistry and microsystems engineering. Its applications range from …

Polymeric nanostructured materials for biomedical applications

Z Tang, C He, H Tian, J Ding, BS Hsiao, B Chu… - Progress in Polymer …, 2016 - Elsevier
Polymeric nanostructured materials (PNMs), which are polymeric materials in nanoscale or
polymer composites containing nanomaterials, have become increasingly useful for …

Engineering functional polymer capsules toward smart nanoreactors

J Gaitzsch, X Huang, B Voit - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The design and construction of integrated chemical ensembles for studying complex
biological systems is attracting considerable interest in a wide range of research …

[HTML][HTML] Vesicle-based artificial cells as chemical microreactors with spatially segregated reaction pathways

Y Elani, RV Law, O Ces - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
In the discipline of bottom-up synthetic biology, vesicles define the boundaries of artificial
cells and are increasingly being used as biochemical microreactors operating in …