A microneedle vaccine printer for thermostable COVID-19 mRNA vaccines

A Vander Straeten, M Sarmadi, JL Daristotle… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Decentralized manufacture of thermostable mRNA vaccines in a microneedle patch (MNP)
format could enhance vaccine access in low-resource communities by eliminating the need …

Tunable and responsive photonic bio‐inspired materials and their applications

J Jeon, D Bukharina, M Kim, S Kang, J Kim… - Responsive …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐enabled and bio‐mimetic nanomaterials represent functional materials, which use bio‐
derived materials and synthetic components to bring the better of two, natural and synthetic …

The bumpy road to stem cell therapies: Rational design of surface topographies to dictate stem cell mechanotransduction and fate

J Carthew, JBJ Taylor, MR Garcia-Cruz… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cells sense and respond to a variety of physical cues from their surrounding
microenvironment, and these are interpreted through mechanotransductive processes to …

Multiscale crack trapping for programmable adhesives

S Park, DK Kang, D Lee, G Choi, J Kim, C Lee… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The precise control of crack propagation at bonded interfaces is crucial for smart adhesives
with advanced performance. However, previous studies have primarily concentrated on …

Design and applications of light responsive liquid crystal polymer thin films

K Mehta, AR Peeketi, L Liu, D Broer, P Onck… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Responding to external stimuli is a trait observed in all living organisms. Modern artificial
materials have adopted this profound characteristic, thereby commencing the field of stimuli …

Shape-programmed fabrication and actuation of magnetically active micropost arrays

J Jeon, JE Park, SJ Park, S Won, H Zhao… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Micro-and nanotextured surfaces with reconfigurable textures can enable advancements in
the control of wetting and heat transfer, directed assembly of complex materials, and …

Surface aligned main-chain liquid crystalline elastomers: tailored properties by the choice of amine chain extenders

HH Yoon, DY Kim, KU Jeong, S Ahn - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
A promising way to induce shape transformation in soft materials is via spatial variation in
the orientation of the alignment of liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs). Here, we improve the …

Fabrication and applications of stimuli‐responsive micro/nanopillar arrays

JE Park, S Won, W Cho, JG Kim… - Journal of Polymer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The functional surface features of living creatures are driven by the complex morphology of
periodically arranged micro/nanoscale structures. Various fabrication processes have been …

On-chip single-mode optofluidic microresonator dye laser sensor

MH Mozaffari, A Farmani - IEEE sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optofluidic dye laser devices have great potential as coherent light sources for lab-on-a-chip
applications such as sensing and spectroscopy applications, owing to their promising …

Switching between 3D Surface Topographies in Liquid Crystal Elastomer Coatings Using Two‐Step Imprint Lithography

P Zhang, MG Debije, LT de Haan, APHJ Schenning - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While dynamic surface topographies are fabricated using liquid crystal (LC) polymers,
switching between two distinct 3D topographies remains challenging. In this work, two …