Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Harnessing liquid-in-liquid printing and micropatterned substrates to fabricate 3-dimensional all-liquid fluidic devices

  • Wenqian Feng,
  • Yu Chai,
  • Joe Forth,
  • Paul D. Ashby,
  • Thomas P. Russell,
  • Brett A. Helms

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09042-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Non-equilibrium systems of immiscible liquids have significant potential to advance different technologies, but control over morphology or functionality remains unexplored. Here, the authors demonstrate an all-liquid fluidic device by exploiting surfactant assemblies to produce a semi-permeable membrane between the liquids.