In general terms, submicron particles can be prepared either by disintegration of larger entities, or by synthesis from small building blocks such as atoms, ions or molecules. By comparison to disintegration techniques, the latter approach provides efficient access to particles down to the nanometer size regime; and it can allow for the controlled synthesis of particles in terms of size, size d...

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by Sumio Iijima in 1991 [1], they have been of great interest to the nanotechnology community. In this work, we explored microfluidic drop generators to fabricate CNT microdrops with a controlled geometry and fast throughput. On the one hand, CNT microdrops were assembled using CNTs water suspensions in oil. On the other hand, we explored the fabri...

Colloidosomes are created in the laboratory from a Pickering emulsion of water droplets in oil. The colloidosomes have approximately the same diameter and by choosing (hairy) particles of different diameters it is possible to control the particle density on the droplets. The experiment is performed at room temperature. The radial distribution function of the assembly of (primary) particles on t...