Monodisperse micro and nanoparticles have attracted great attention across lab-on-a-chip instruments, and biosensors for a range of applications in tissue engineering. Materials scientists and ...

Droplet manipulation is kindling great interest in several fields, including technological applications and basic studies in dynamic systems. The Lab-on-a-chip and microfluidics community is ...

Droplet creation is a crucial but challenging subject in microfluidics. Depending on the application, the objective is to produce droplets of a particular size. Two immiscible phases are used in ...

Emulsions are mixtures of two insoluble liquids, in which one of the liquids exists as a dispersion of small droplets in the other. They are quite common in everyday life; milk, butter, facial creams, ...

Precision in droplet formation is key to advancing lab-on-a-chip technologies. Now, researchers have unveiled a user-friendly method that generates individual droplets on demand with pinpoint accuracy ...

Tiny gel droplets enhanced with University of Queensland technology could open new pathways to repairing and replacing damaged organs. Dr. Ruirui Qiao and her team at UQ's Australian Institute for ...

How fast does a droplet flow along a fiber? It depends on the diameter of the fiber... and also on its substructure! These are the findings of a study conducted by researchers who are interested in ...

A novel study demonstrates that droplets at a miniscule level can be precisely controlled, opening new avenues in micro-scale systems. (Nanowerk News) Scientists from the Research Center for Materials ...

A new study has presented and characterized the formation and properties of a superparamagnetic ring, which fits snugly around a drop of water due to liquid-liquid interaction, and allows the drops to ...