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Bielas R, Kubiak T, Molcan M, Dobosz B, Rajnak M, Józefczak A. Biocompatible Hydrogel-Based Liquid Marbles with Magnetosomes. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 17:99. [PMID: 38203953 PMCID: PMC10779466 DOI: 10.3390/ma17010099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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Liquid marbles are widely known for their potential biomedical applications, especially due to their versatility and ease of preparation. In the present work, we prepared liquid marbles with various cores composed of water, agar-based hydrogels, magnetic fluids, or non-aqueous substances. As a coating material, we used biocompatible particles of plant origin, such as turmeric grains and Lycopodium pollen. Additionally, we provided marbles with magnetic properties by incorporating either magnetosomes or iron oxide nanoparticles as a powder or by injecting another magnetic fluid. Structures obtained in this way were stable and susceptible to manipulation by an external magnetic field. The properties of the magnetic components of our marbles were verified using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). Our approach to encapsulation of active substances such as antibiotics within a protective hydrogel core opens up new perspectives for the delivery of hydrophobic payloads to the inherently hydrophilic biological environment. Additionally, hydrogel marbles enriched with magnetic materials showed promise as biocompatible heating agents under alternating magnetic fields. A significant innovation of our research was also the fabrication of composite structures in which the gel-like core was surrounded without mixing by a magnetic fluid covered on the outside by the particle shell. Our liquid marbles, especially those with a hydrogel core and magnetic content, due to the ease of preparation and favorable properties, have great potential for biomedical use. The fact that we were able to simultaneously produce, functionalize (by filling with predefined cargo), and manipulate (by means of an external magnetic field) several marbles also seems to be important from an application point of view.
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- Rafał Bielas
- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland;
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- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland;
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia; (M.M.); (M.R.)
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- Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland;
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 040 01 Košice, Slovakia; (M.M.); (M.R.)
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia
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- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland;
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Tenjimbayashi M, Mouterde T, Roy PK, Uto K. Liquid marbles: review of recent progress in physical properties, formation techniques, and lab-in-a-marble applications in microreactors and biosensors. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:18980-18998. [PMID: 37990550 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr04966c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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Liquid marbles (LMs) are nonsticking droplets whose surfaces are covered with low-wettability particles. Owing to their high mobility, shape reconfigurability, and widely accessible liquid/particle possibilities, the research on LMs has flourished since 2001. Their physical properties, fabrication mechanisms, and functionalisation capabilities indicate their potential for various applications. This review summarises the fundamental properties of LMs, the recent advances (mainly works published in 2020-2023) in the concept of LMs, physical properties, formation methods, LM-templated material design, and biochemical applications. Finally, the potential development and variations of LMs are discussed.
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- Mizuki Tenjimbayashi
- Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
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- Research Center for Macromolecules and Biomaterials, NIMS, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Lathia R, Nagpal S, Modak CD, Mishra S, Sharma D, Reddy BS, Nukala P, Bhat R, Sen P. Tunable encapsulation of sessile droplets with solid and liquid shells. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6445. [PMID: 37833273 PMCID: PMC10575970 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41977-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023] Open
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Droplet encapsulations using liquid or solid shells are of significant interest in microreactors, drug delivery, crystallization, and cell growth applications. Despite progress in droplet-related technologies, tuning micron-scale shell thickness over a large range of droplet sizes is still a major challenge. In this work, we report capillary force assisted cloaking using hydrophobic colloidal particles and liquid-infused surfaces. The technique produces uniform solid and liquid shell encapsulations over a broad range (5-200 μm shell thickness for droplet volume spanning over four orders of magnitude). Tunable liquid encapsulation is shown to reduce the evaporation rate of droplets by up to 200 times with a wide tunability in lifetime (1.5 h to 12 days). Further, we propose using the technique for single crystals and cell/spheroid culture platforms. Stimuli-responsive solid shells show hermetic encapsulation with tunable strength and dissolution time. Moreover, scalability, and versatility of the technique is demonstrated for on-chip applications.
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- Rutvik Lathia
- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
- Department of BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India
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- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
- Department of BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
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Kaushal A, Shoval S, Binks BP, Bormashenko E. Universality of Scaling Laws Governing Contact and Spreading Time Spans of Bouncing Liquid Marbles and its Physical Origin. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:12488-12496. [PMID: 37604671 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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The impact of liquid marbles coated with a diversity of hydrophobic powders with various solid substrates, including hydrophobic, hydrophilic, and superhydrophobic ones, was investigated. The contact time of the bouncing marbles was studied. Universal scaling behavior of the contact time tc as a function of the Weber number (We) was established; the scaling law tc = tc(We) was independent of the kind of powder and the type of solid substrate. The total contact time consists of spreading time and retraction time. It is weakly dependent on We and this is true for all kinds of studied powders and substrates. This observation hints to the surface tension/inertia spring model governing the impact. By contrast, the spreading time ts scales as [Formula: see text], n = 0.28 - 0.30 ± 0.002. We relate the origin of this scaling law to the viscous dissipation occurring within the spreading marbles. The retraction time tr grows weakly with the Weber number. The scaling law was changed at threshold values of We ≅ 15-20. It is reasonable to explain this change with the breaking of the Leidenfrost regime of spreading under high values of We.
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- Abhishek Kaushal
- Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 407000 Ariel, Israel
- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 407000, Israel
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- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, Ariel 407000, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, U.K
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 407000 Ariel, Israel
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Li N, Wanyan H, Lu S, Xiao H, Zhang M, Liu K, Li X, Du B, Huang L, Chen L, Ni Y, Wu H. Robust cellulose-based hydrogel marbles with excellent stability for gas sensing. Carbohydr Polym 2023; 306:120617. [PMID: 36746574 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2023.120617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Revised: 01/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Liquid marbles, as particle-armored droplets, have potential applications in microreactors, biomedicine, controlled release and gas detection. To improve the stability and biocompatibility of marble, biocompatible cellulose acetate particles and 3-allyloxy-2-hydroxy-propyl-cellulose (AHP-cellulose) were used to fabricate robust cellulose-based liquid marbles with excellent stability. Liquid marble was gelled into hydrogel marble via blue-light-irradiated polymerization of AHP-cellulose. The mechanical properties of cellulose-based hydrogel marble are superior to those of liquid marble. The rupture height of liquid marble is 10.5 m, which is 420 times greater than that of water marble (0.025 m). Surprisingly, the hydrogel marble with a 3 % AHP-cellulose concentration remained intact even after being dropped from a height of 50 m, which is comparable with the ability of a leather ball to withstand larger impact. When released from a height of 60 mm, hydrogel marble bounced to approximately 25.5 mm, 881 % higher than liquid marble (2.6 mm). Hydrogel marble exhibited long-lasting stability and was capable of monitoring ammonia with a detection limit of 365.2 mg/m3. The biocompatible cellulose-based hydrogel marble with excellent mechanical stability and reusability detection has great potential in chemical and environmental engineering as gas sensors.
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- Na Li
- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; School of Forestry, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou 450002, PR China.
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Plant Fiber Functional Materials, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Plant Fiber Functional Materials, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China.
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Plant Fiber Functional Materials, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China
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- Yuzhong (Fujian) New Material Technology Co., Ltd, Quanzhou, Fujian 362141, PR China
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; Yuzhong (Fujian) New Material Technology Co., Ltd, Quanzhou, Fujian 362141, PR China
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Plant Fiber Functional Materials, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Plant Fiber Functional Materials, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; Limerick Pulp and Paper Centre, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton NBE3B 5A3, Canada
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- College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China; National Forestry and Grassland Administration Key Laboratory of Plant Fiber Functional Materials, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, PR China.
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Mohammadrashidi M, Bijarchi MA, Shafii MB, Taghipoor M. Experimental and Theoretical Investigation on the Dynamic Response of Ferrofluid Liquid Marbles to Steady and Pulsating Magnetic Fields. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:2246-2259. [PMID: 36722776 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Liquid marbles are droplets enwrapped by a layer of hydrophobic micro/nanoparticles. Due to the isolation of fluid from its environment, reduction in evaporation rate, low friction with the surfaces, and capability of manipulation even on hydrophilic surfaces, liquid marbles have attracted the attention of researchers in digital microfluidics. This study investigates the manipulation of ferrofluid liquid marbles (FLMs) under DC and pulse width-modulated (PWM) magnetic fields generated by an electromagnet for the first time. At first, the threshold of the magnetic field for manipulating these FLMs is studied. Afterward, the dynamic response of the FLMs to the DC magnetic field for different FLM volumes, coil currents, and initial distances of FLM from the coil is studied, and a theoretical model is proposed. By applying the PWM magnetic field, it is possible to gain more control over the manipulation of the FLMs on the surface and adjust their position more accurately. Results indicate that with a decrease in FLM volume, coil current, and duty cycle, the FLM step length decreases; hence, FLM manipulation is more precise. Under the PWM magnetic field, it is observed that FLM movement is not synchronous with the generated pulse, and even after the coil is turned off, FLMs keep their motion. In the end, with proper adjustment of the electromagnet pulse width, launching of FLMs at a distance farther than the coil is observed.
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- Mahbod Mohammadrashidi
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran1458889694, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran1458889694, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran1458889694, Iran
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran1458889694, Iran
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Roy PK, Shoval S, Fujii S, Bormashenko E. Interfacial crystallization in the polyhedral liquid marbles. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 630:685-694. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.10.148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Feng Y, Yao G, Xu J, Wang L, Liu G. Effect of surface roughness on the solar evaporation of liquid marbles. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 629:644-653. [PMID: 36182756 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.09.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Revised: 09/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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HYPOTHESIS Nanostructured materials are widely used for solar energy harvesting and conversion due to their excellent photothermal properties. It is generally accepted that the better the light absorption ability, the better the photothermal conversion efficiency. EXPERIMENT A series of experiments in solar evaporation of liquid marbles (LMs) by coating the droplets with Fe3O4, Ni nanoparticles (NPs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are conducted. FINDINGS Conversely, we found that the surface roughness of solar absorber plays a significant role in solar evaporation rather than the light absorption. The results disclose that the Fe3O4 NPs with the lowest absorptivity has the largest roughness on drop surface, while that of CNTs show the opposite properties. The evaporation dynamics of LMs are featured with dome or constant spherical collapse with different roughness. Such dynamic difference arises from the mechanical competition between the capillary force and interparticle interaction. Besides, the strong light-harvesting and near-field radiation enabled by the rough surfaces enhance the solar evaporation. The Fe3O4-LM shows the highest evaporation rate of 6.55 μg/s, which is 1.09 and 1.30 times larger than that of Ni-LM and CNT-LM, respectively. Numerical analysis reveals that the rough surface with stacking arrangement of NPs greatly enhances the light-induced electromagnetic field and heat concentration over the interface, leading to a plasmon-coupling boundary with high temperature for the fast evaporation. Uncovering these properties could be of much help for developments of heatable miniature evaporators or reactors and their counterparts, permitting a broad range of processes with precise temperature and kinetic control.
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- Yijun Feng
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, PR China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, PR China.
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Kumar Roy P, Binks BP, Shoval S, Dombrovsky LA, Bormashenko E. Hierarchical liquid marbles formed using floating hydrophobic powder and levitating water droplets. J Colloid Interface Sci 2022; 626:466-474. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.06.168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2022] [Revised: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Roy PK, Binks BP, Shoval S, Dombrovsky LA, Bormashenko E. Levitating clusters of fluorinated fumed silica nanoparticles enable manufacture of liquid marbles: Co-occurrence of interfacial, thermal and electrostatic events. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.129453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Sun Y, Zheng Y, Liu C, Zhang Y, Wen S, Song L, Zhao M. Liquid marbles, floating droplets: preparations, properties, operations and applications. RSC Adv 2022; 12:15296-15315. [PMID: 35693225 PMCID: PMC9118372 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra00735e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Liquid marbles (LMs) are non-wettable droplets formed with a coating of hydrophobic particles. They can move easily across either solid or liquid surfaces since the hydrophobic particles protect the internal liquid from contacting the substrate. In recent years, mainly due to their simple preparation, abundant materials, non-wetting/non-adhesive properties, elasticities and stabilities, LMs have been applied in many fields such as microfluidics, sensors and biological incubators. In this review, the recent advances in the preparation, physical properties and applications of liquid marbles, especially operations and floating abilities, are summarized. Moreover, the challenges to achieve uniformity, slow volatilization and stronger stability are pointed out. Various applications generated by LMs' structural characteristics are also expected.
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- Yukai Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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Bazazi P, Hejazi SH. Wetting Dynamics of Nanoparticle Dispersions: From Fully Spreading to Non-sticking and the Deposition of Nanoparticle-Laden Surface Droplets. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:20280-20290. [PMID: 35446544 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c03156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Controlled transport of liquid droplets on solid surfaces is critical in many practical applications, such as self-cleaning surfaces, coating, drug delivery, and agriculture. Non-adhesive liquid drops levitate on solid surfaces; therefore, they are highly mobile and directed toward desired locations by external stimuli. Although research on liquid-repellent surfaces has proliferated, the existing methods are still limited to creating surface roughness or coating the liquid droplets. Here, we create non-contact aqueous drops on hydrophilic surfaces in an oleic environment and use them to deposit submicrometer droplets encapsulating nanoparticles on solid surfaces. A glass surface is buried under an oil phase that contains a high concentration of Span 80 surfactants, and a drop of silica nanoparticle dispersion is released on the solid surface. We study the effect of surfactant concentration in oil and nanoparticle concentration in water on wetting dynamics and report a plethora of droplet spreading regimes from fully wetting to non-wetting. We find a threshold Span 80 concentration above which surfactant assemblies are formed on the solid and prevent the direct contact of the drop with the surface. At the same time, water-in-oil emulsions are generated at the drop-oil interface. The drop moves and leaves a trace of emulsions with encapsulated nanoparticles on the solid. We demonstrate the possibility of local surface coating with hydrophilic nanoparticles in a hydrophobic medium. The developed methodology in this study is a generic approach facilitating the droplet patterning in numerous applications, from pharmaceutical polymetric carriers to the formulation of cosmetics, insecticides, and biomedical diagnoses.
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- Parisa Bazazi
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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Vialetto J, Zanini M, Isa L. Attachment and detachment of particles to and from fluid interfaces. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2021.101560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Lin ES, Song Z, Ong JW, Abid HA, Liew OW, Ng TW. Liquid marble microbioreactor aeration facilitated by on-demand electrolysis. RESULTS IN CHEMISTRY 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rechem.2022.100334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Numerical simulation of two-phase droplets on a curved surface using Surface Evolver. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.127418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Kumar Roy P, Legchenkova I, Shoval S, Dombrovsky LA, Bormashenko E. Osmotic evolution of composite liquid marbles. J Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 592:167-173. [PMID: 33662822 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.02.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS We hypothesized that the reported evolution (growth) of composite water marbles filled with saline water and coated with lycopodium dispersed in a thin layer of silicone oil is due to the osmotic mass transfer. The hypothesis is supported by the semi-empirical model of osmotic growth of small liquid marbles floating on distilled water. EXPERIMENTS Saline composite, silicone oil-coated marbles floating on distilled water grew with time; whereas, composite marbles filled with distilled water floating on aqueous solutions of NaCl lost mass with time and shrunk. However, composite liquid marbles filled with saline water and floating on aqueous solutions of NaCl remained stable during 25 h of the laboratory experiment. FINDINGS The reported findings are reasonably attributed to osmotic mass transport through the thin silicon layer filled with lycopodium particles coating the marbles, acting as an osmotic membrane. This is supported by the suggested model for the osmotic growth of marbles.
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- Pritam Kumar Roy
- Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 407000 Ariel, Israel
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 407000 Ariel, Israel
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- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 407000 Ariel, Israel
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- X-BIO Institute, University of Tyumen, 6 Volodarskogo St, Tyumen 625003, Russia; Heat Transfer Department, Joint Institute for High Temperatures, 17A Krasnokazarmennaya St, Moscow 111116, Russia
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 407000 Ariel, Israel.
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Lobel BT, Thomas CA, Ireland PM, Wanless EJ, Webber GB. Liquid marbles, formation and locomotion using external fields and forces. ADV POWDER TECHNOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.apt.2021.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Bormashenko E, Fedorets AA, Dombrovsky LA, Nosonovsky M. Survival of Virus Particles in Water Droplets: Hydrophobic Forces and Landauer's Principle. ENTROPY 2021; 23:e23020181. [PMID: 33573357 PMCID: PMC7912349 DOI: 10.3390/e23020181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Many small biological objects, such as viruses, survive in a water environment and cannot remain active in dry air without condensation of water vapor. From a physical point of view, these objects belong to the mesoscale, where small thermal fluctuations with the characteristic kinetic energy of kBT (where kB is the Boltzmann’s constant and T is the absolute temperature) play a significant role. The self-assembly of viruses, including protein folding and the formation of a protein capsid and lipid bilayer membrane, is controlled by hydrophobic forces (i.e., the repulsing forces between hydrophobic particles and regions of molecules) in a water environment. Hydrophobic forces are entropic, and they are driven by a system’s tendency to attain the maximum disordered state. On the other hand, in information systems, entropic forces are responsible for erasing information, if the energy barrier between two states of a switch is on the order of kBT, which is referred to as Landauer’s principle. We treated hydrophobic interactions responsible for the self-assembly of viruses as an information-processing mechanism. We further showed a similarity of these submicron-scale processes with the self-assembly in colloidal crystals, droplet clusters, and liquid marbles.
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Affiliation(s)
- Edward Bormashenko
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, Engineering Science Faculty, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel;
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- X-BIO Institute, University of Tyumen, 6 Volodarskogo St, 625003 Tyumen, Russia; (A.A.F.); (L.A.D.)
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- X-BIO Institute, University of Tyumen, 6 Volodarskogo St, 625003 Tyumen, Russia; (A.A.F.); (L.A.D.)
- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, 17A Krasnokazarmennaya St, 111116 Moscow, Russia
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- X-BIO Institute, University of Tyumen, 6 Volodarskogo St, 625003 Tyumen, Russia; (A.A.F.); (L.A.D.)
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, 3200 North Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-414-229-2816
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Roy PK, Shoval S, Sharabi M, Bormashenko E. Soft lithography with liquid marbles. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Roy PK, Binks BP, Fujii S, Shoval S, Bormashenko E. Composite Liquid Marbles as a Macroscopic Model System Representing Shedding of Enveloped Viruses. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:4279-4285. [PMID: 32396360 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A model macroscopic system imitating the entry of viruses into living cells is suggested. The system represents the contact of a composite (core-shell) liquid marble with hydrophobic/hydrophilic particles. Composite liquid marbles are water droplets coated with silicone oil armored with nanometer-sized hydrophobic particles serving as an interfacial model of a living cell. Composite marbles absorbed hydrophilic polymer particles but prevented hydrophobic particles from entering their core. Swallowing of hydrophilic particles by composite marbles resembles the penetration of viruses into living cells. The interfacial mechanism of absorption is suggested.
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Affiliation(s)
- Pritam Kumar Roy
- Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 407000 Ariel, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, U.K
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, 5-16-1 Omiya, Asahi-ku, Osaka 535-8585, Japan
- Nanomaterials Microdevices Research Center, Osaka Institute of Technology, 5-16-1 Omiya, Asahi-ku, Osaka 535-8585, Japan
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- Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Engineering Faculty, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 40700 Ariel, Israel
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- Chemical Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Ariel University, P.O.B. 3, 407000 Ariel, Israel
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