3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Towards Animate Droplets: Active, Adaptive, and Autonomous
Joe Forth, Robert Malinowski, Giorgio Volpe
Droplets, sub-millilitre liquid volumes with at least one interface, have traditionally served as compartments for storing, transporting, and delivering materials. Beyond familiar…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Roadmap for Animate Matter
Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Maria Guix +37
Humanity has long sought inspiration from nature to innovate materials and devices. As science advances, nature-inspired materials are becoming part of our lives. Animate materials…
cond-mat.soft2024
Capillary-Assisted Printing of Droplets at a Solid-Like Liquid-Liquid Interface
Anshu Thapa, Robert Malinowski, Matthew O. Blunt +2
Capillary forces guide the motion of biomolecular condensates, water-borne insects, and breakfast cereal. These surface-mediated interactions can be harnessed to build units into m…