Smart droplets stabilized by designer surfactants: from biomimicry to active motion to materials healing

Z Yang, D Snyder, A Sathyan, A Balazs… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The science and technologies of emulsion droplets have been a long‐term focus of
extensive research endeavors for their practical utility across a breadth of industries …

Understanding Molecular Transfer between Aqueous Phase and Reverse Micelles and Its Application to Bioassays in Microfluidics

M Fukuyama - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Micrometer-sized water-in-oil droplets (microdroplets) are attracting attention as carriers for
the high-throughput parallel analysis of trace samples. By confining trace amounts of water …

Nanoparticle Assembly at the Water–Oil Interface Induced by Spontaneous Emulsification for Microdroplet Immunoassay

M Fukuyama, K Kubota, A Hibara - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Micron-sized water-in-oil droplets (microdroplets) have been used for various biochemical
analyses. Many studies have been reported on immunoassays using microdroplets because …

Kinetic description of water transport during spontaneous emulsification induced by Span 80

M Fukuyama, T Mizuguchi, P Santivongskul, Y Ono… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Spontaneous emulsification is a phenomenon that forms nanometer-sized droplets
(nanodroplets) without the application of any external force, and the mechanism has been …

Towards Industrially Important Applications of Enhanced Organic Reactions by Microfluidic Systems

A Zafar, C Takeda, A Manzoor, D Tanaka, M Kobayashi… - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
This review presents a comprehensive evaluation for the manufacture of organic molecules
via efficient microfluidic synthesis. Microfluidic systems provide considerably higher control …

Ablation of water drops suspended in asphaltene/heptol solutions due to spontaneous emulsification

S Bochner de Araujo, M Reyssat, C Monteux… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Complex molecules from crude oil, such as asphaltenes, can adsorb onto oil/water
interfaces. This creates a viscoelastic network that may cause difficulties in oil recovery and …

Scalable droplet generator design using parallel-arranged capillaries with axial misalignment

L Lou, Z Fan, Y Xu, H Zhang, J Wang, Y Yang - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
We present a scalable droplet generator with capillaries embedded in a microchannel,
assembled with 3D printed T-connector and fittings. We first analyze the influences of …

Controlling water transport between micelles and aqueous microdroplets during sample enrichment

M Fukuyama, L Zhou, T Okada, KV Simonova… - Analytica Chimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Droplet microfluidics technologies have advanced rapidly, but enrichment in droplets has
still been difficult. To deterministically control the droplet enrichment, the water transport from …

Dynamic wettability of polyethylene glycol-modified poly (dimethylsiloxane) surfaces in an aqueous/organic two-phase system

M Fukuyama, M Tokeshi, MA Proskurnin, A Hibara - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We herein report the preparation of a surface that behaves in a hydrophobic manner but
does not undergo protein adsorption in an aqueous/organic two-phase system. We found …

Transport of Oligopeptide from Aqueous Phase to Span 80 Reverse Micelles in Microdroplet Array

M Fukuyama, M Suto, A Hibara - Analytical Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The partitioning of water and tetramethylrhodamine-conjugated-10-residue oligopeptides
from the aqueous phase of microdroplets into Span 80 reverse micelles was observed by …