Controlling structural organization and signaling motif display is of great importance to design the functional tissue regenerating materials. Synthetic phage, genetically engineered M13 bacteriophage has been recently introduced as novel tissue regeneration materials to display a high density of cell-signaling peptides on their major coat proteins for tissue regeneration purposes. Structural a...

This Letter describes a periodically oscillating foam flow in a microfluidic device. For constant input parameters, both the produced bubble volume and the flow rate vary over a factor of two. We make explicit the link between the foam topology alternance and flow rate changes, and construct a retroaction model where bubbles still present downstream determine the volume of new bubbles, in agree...

Droplet generation in microscale has gained enormous attention recent years especially the pharmaceutical industry due to their application targeted drug delivery into droplets. In most of these applications, monodispersity and uniformity droplets are essential. Microfluidic devices can generate at high throughput, enabling thousands droplet compound encapsulation per second. The is ensured hyd...

This short perspective describes recent developments in the synthesis of nanoscale colloids from sparingly soluble precursors. These strategies, which we dubbed 'heterogeneous nanocrystal syntheses' owing to the presence of a precursor in a non-colloidal solid state, have demonstrated the ability to generate new colloidal shapes, a superior monodispersity and a remarkable ability to delay the o...

Small, monodispersed nanogels (~ 50-nm radius) were synthesized by free-radical precipitation polymerization and characterized using a suite of light scattering and chromatography methods. Nanogels were synthesized with either N-isopropylacrylamide or N-isopropylmethacrylamide as the main monomer, with acrylic acid or 4-acrylamidofluorescein as a co-monomer and N, N'-methylenebis(acrylamide) as...

Abstract Nowadays, many studies have been established to develop strategies for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) treatment. However, seldom of them explored the synergistic effects materials and probiotics in IBD Herein, we prepared probiotics-loaded dietary fiber microspheres studied their potential therapy. The carrageenan, a typical fiber, was functionalized with polymerizable groups employe...

A supersaturation-controlled aqueous synthesis route has been developed for ZnTe quantum dots (QDs) with high monodispersity, size tunability, stability, band-edge luminescence (full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) 10-12 nm) and negligibly small Stokes' shift (2-4 nm). The degree of supersaturation of the initial reaction mixture was varied by increasing the reagent concentration, but keeping the ...

High-quality PbS nanocrystals were produced in multigram-scale quantities through a solventless, heterogeneous, and relatively green route. The heterogeneous nature of this reaction allows one to limit the diffusion in the system, allowing for unprecedented monodispersity and quality of the product demonstrated by a full-width at half-maximum of the photoluminescence peak (PL fwhm) as low as 52...

The preparation and use of tri-functional linkers for surface complexation to both gold and silver nanoparticles is reported. These molecules confer excellent stability towards nanoparticles ensuring particle monodispersity in biological buffers, and also incorporate dyes to allow use of the functionalised nanoparticles as SERRS reporters. Biomolecule conjugation and quantitation has been illus...