Spongy all-in-liquid materials by in-situ formation of emulsions at oil-water interfaces

ABSTRACT: Printing a structured network of functionalized droplets in a liquid medium enables engineering collectives of living cells for functional purposes and promises enormous applications in processes ranging from energy storage to tissue engineering. Current approaches are limited to drop-by-drop printing or face limitations in reproducing the sophisticated internal features of a structured material and its interactions with the surrounding media. Here, we report a simple approach for creating stable liquid filaments of silica nanoparticle dispersions and use them as inks to print all-in-liquid materials that consist of a network of droplets. Silica nanoparticles stabilize liquid filaments at Weber numbers two orders of magnitude smaller than previously reported in liquid-liquid systems by rap

SUBMITTER: Bazazi P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9293904 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature