Super‐Macroporous Lightweight Materials Templated from Bicontinuous Intra‐Phase Jammed Emulsion Gels Based on Nanochitin (Small 39/2023)

The bijel: a bicontinuous interfacially jammed emulsion gel

The bijel is a new class of soft material comprised of two fluids arrested in a bicontinuous configuration on the mesoscale. We stabilize the fluid structure using an interfacial layer of silica particles. The particles become trapped at the liquid-liquid interface because they reduce the exposed area; this relies on the particles being partially wetted by both liquids. We use water and 2,6-lut...

Mesostructured Polymer Materials Based on Bicontinuous Microemulsions

Photolithography‐Compatible Templated Patterning of Functional Organic Materials in Emulsion

A solution-processed patterning of functional organic materials in emulsion is reported. The concept is to absorb microdrops onto predefined locations by hydrophilicity difference. Owing to a universal solvent used, the method can be applied to pattern variety materials on substrates of interest over large size. The figure shows Rhodamine 6G patterned film.

Janus particles templated from double emulsion droplets generated using microfluidics.

We present a simple microfluidics-based technique to fabricate Janus particles using double-emulsion droplets as templates. Since each half of the particles is templated from a different immiscible fluid, this method enables the formation of particles from two materials with vastly different properties. The use of microfluidics affords excellent control over the size, morphology, and monodisper...

Double emulsion templated monodisperse phospholipid vesicles.

We present a novel approach for fabricating monodisperse phospholipid vesicles with high encapsulation efficiency using controlled double emulsions as templates. Glass-capillary microfluidics is used to generate monodisperse double emulsion templates. We show that the high uniformity in size and shape of the templates are maintained in the final phospholipid vesicles after a solvent removal ste...