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20 μL liquid marble coated with the Teflon powder

Liquid marbles are non-stick droplets wrapped by micro- or nano-metrically scaled colloidal particles (Teflon, polyethylene, lycopodium powder, carbon black, etc.) representing a platform for a diversity of chemical and biological applications.[1][2][3] It was reported that liquid marbles are also found naturally; aphids convert honeydew droplets into marbles.[4] A variety of non-organic and organic liquids may be converted into liquid marbles.[3][5][6] Liquid marbles demonstrate elastic properties and do not coalesce when bounced or pressed.[6] Liquid marbles demonstrate a potential as micro-reactors, micro-containers for growing micro-organisms and cells, and micro-fluidics devices.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Aussillous, Pascale; Quéré, David (2001). "Liquid marbles". Nature. 411 (6840): 924. doi:10.1038/35082026. PMID 11418851.
  2. ^ Quéré, David; Aussillous, Pascale (2006). "Properties of liquid marbles". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 462 (2067): 973. Bibcode:2006RSPSA.462..973A. doi:10.1098/rspa.2005.1581.
  3. ^ a b McHale, G; Newton, M. I (2015). "Liquid marbles: Topical context within soft matter and recent progress". Soft Matter. 11 (13): 2530. Bibcode:2015SMat...11.2530M. doi:10.1039/C5SM00084J. PMID 25723648.
  4. ^ Pike, N; Richard, D; Foster, W; Mahadevan, L (2002). "How aphids lose their marbles". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 269 (1497): 1211. doi:10.1098/rspb.2002.1999.
  5. ^ a b Bormashenko, Edward; Bormashenko, Yelena; Grynyov, Roman; Aharoni, Hadas; Whyman, Gene; Binks, Bernard P (2015). "Self-Propulsion of Liquid Marbles: Leidenfrost-like Levitation Driven by Marangoni Flow". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119 (18): 9910. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b01307.
  6. ^ a b c Bormashenko, Edward (2016). "Liquid Marbles, Elastic Nonstick Droplets: From Minireactors to Self-Propulsion". Langmuir. 33 (3): 663–669. doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03231. PMID 28114756.
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