Static-state particle fabrication via rapid vitrification of a thixotropic medium

Sang Yup Kim; Shanliangzi Liu; Sungwoo Sohn; Jane Jacobs; Mark D. Shattuck; Corey S. O’Hern; Jan Schroers; Michael Loewenberg; Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-23992-2

Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Static-state particle fabrication via rapid vitrification of a thixotropic medium

Sang Yup Kim,
Shanliangzi Liu,
Sungwoo Sohn,
Jane Jacobs,
Mark D. Shattuck,
Corey S. O’Hern,
Jan Schroers,
Michael Loewenberg,
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio

Affiliations

Sang Yup Kim: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Shanliangzi Liu: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Sungwoo Sohn: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Jane Jacobs: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Mark D. Shattuck: Department of Physics, City University of New York
Corey S. O’Hern: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Jan Schroers: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University
Michael Loewenberg: Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University
Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23992-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Upscale fabrication of functionalized microparticles is a pending challenge. Here, Kim et al. exploit the rheology of a thixotropic medium to grind sizeable amounts of raw material into well-defined colloidal dispersions, physically stabilized for further production steps.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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