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Minimum Surfactant Concentration Required for Inducing Self-shaping of Oil Droplets and Competitive Adsorption Effects
Jiale Feng, Zhulieta Valkova, E Emily Lin +5
Surfactant choice is key in starting the phenomena of artificial morphogenesis, the bottom-up growth of geometric particles from cooled emulsion droplets, as well as the bottom-up…
Origin of life from a maker's perspective -- focus on protocellular compartments in bottom-up synthetic biology
Ivan Ivanov, Stoyan K. Smoukov, Ehsan Nourafkan +2
The origin of life is shrouded in mystery, with few surviving clues, obscured by evolutionary competition. Previous reviews have touched on the complementary approaches of top-down…
Flow reactor for preparation of lipid nanoparticles via temperature variations
I. Lesov, D. Glushkova, D. Cholakova +4
Lipid nanoemulsions and nanosuspensions are used as flavor carriers and bubble stabilizers in soft drinks and foods, as well as delivery vehicles for lipophilic drugs in pharmaceut…
Sustainably Grown: The Underdog Robots of the Future
Stoyan K. Smoukov
It is hard to imagine with the progress in robotics that current approaches are lacking somewhere, yet they will not be applicable to the majority of robots in the near future. We…
Rechargeable self-assembled droplet microswimmers driven by surface phase transitions
Diana Cholakova, Maciej Lisicki, Stoyan K. Smoukov +6
The design of artificial microswimmers is often inspired by the strategies of natural microorganisms. Many of these creatures exploit the fact that elasticity breaks the time-rever…
Comment on "Faceting and Flattening of Emulsion Droplets: A Mechanical Model"
Pierre A. Haas, Raymond E. Goldstein, Diana Cholakova +2
García-Aguilar et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett 126, 038001 (2021)] have shown that the deformations of "shape-shifting droplets" are consistent with an elastic model, that, unlike previous…
Shape-Shifting Polyhedral Droplets
Pierre A. Haas, Diana Cholakova, Nikolai Denkov +2
Cooled oil emulsion droplets in aqueous surfactant solution have been observed to flatten into a remarkable host of polygonal shapes with straight edges and sharp corners, but diff…
A Theory of Shape-Shifting Droplets
Pierre A. Haas, Raymond E. Goldstein, Stoyan K. Smoukov +2
Recent studies of cooled oil emulsion droplets uncovered transformations into a host of flattened shapes with straight edges and sharp corners, driven by a partial phase transition…