Building Reconfigurable Devices Using Complex Liquid–Fluid Interfaces
Abstract
Liquid–fluid interfaces provide a platform both for structuring liquids into complex shapes and assembling dimensionally confined, functional nanomaterials. Historically, attention in this area has focused on simple emulsions and foams, in which surface‐active materials such as surfactants or colloids stabilize structures against coalescence and alter the mechanical properties of the interface. In recent decades, however, a growing body of work has begun to demonstrate the full potential of the assembly of nanomaterials at liquid–fluid interfaces to generate functionally advanced, biomimetic systems. Here, a broad overview is given, from fundamentals to applications, of the use of liquid–fluid interfaces to generate complex, all‐liquid devices with a myriad of potential applications.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Mar 04, 2019
- Source ID
- 10.1002/adma.201806370
Entities
People
- Brett A. Helms
- Ganhua Xie
- Joe Forth
- Paul Y Kim
- Thomas Paul Russell
- Xubo Liu
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- Beijing University of Chemical Technology
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- United States Department of Energy
- University of Massachusetts