[HTML][HTML] Hydrophilic polymers: Current trends and visions for the future

N Bayliss, BVKJ Schmidt - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrophilic polymers are a major class of polymers in polymer science. They are found in
broad range of applications from superabsorbers to drug-delivery. In recent years, a plethora …

Building micro-capsules using water-in-water emulsion droplets as templates

A Perro, N Coudon, JP Chapel, N Martin… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of templates in materials chemistry is a well-established approach for producing
membrane-bounded hollow spheres used for microencapsulation applications, but also in …

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 …

Reversible morphology-resolved chemotactic actuation and motion of Janus emulsion droplets

BD Frank, S Djalali, AW Baryzewska, P Giusto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We report, for the first time, a chemotactic motion of emulsion droplets that can be
controllably and reversibly altered. Our approach is based on using biphasic Janus …

Synthesis of polymer Janus particles with tunable wettability profiles as potent solid surfactants to promote gas delivery in aqueous reaction media

BD Frank, M Perovic, S Djalali… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Janus particles exhibit a strong tendency to directionally assemble and segregate to
interfaces and thus offer advantages as colloidal analogues of molecular surfactants to …

Detection of PFAS and fluorinated surfactants using differential behaviors at interfaces of complex droplets

V Trinh, CS Malloy, TJ Durkin, A Gadh… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Contamination of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water supplies will continue
to have serious health and environmental consequences. Despite the importance of …

Reconfigurable complex emulsions: Design, properties, and applications

RV Balaj, LD Zarzar - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Reconfigurable complex emulsions, which consist of multiphase droplets that can change
morphology between encapsulated and Janus shapes, have become of recent fundamental …

Multicompartment hydrogels

BVKJ Schmidt - Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels belong to the most promising materials in polymer and materials science at the
moment. As they feature soft and tissue‐like character as well as high water‐content, a …

Responsive Janus droplets as modular sensory layers for the optical detection of bacteria

L Zeininger - Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
The field of biosensor development is fueled by innovations in new functional transduction
materials and technologies. Material innovations promise to extend current sensor hardware …

Dynamically Reconfigurable Complex Emulsion Droplets as Intelligent Microreactors

D Wei, N Yin, D Xu, L Ge, R Guo - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Multicompartments in complex emulsions, which mimic the organelles of living cells, can
spontaneously sequester reactants/products and confine spatially incompatible compounds …