Weekly Wiki Entries for APPHY 226, Spring 2009
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Pratomo Putra (Tom) Alimsijah
Geometrically Mediated Breakup of Drops in Microfluidic Devices
Formation of dispersions using ‘‘flow focusing’’ in microchannels
Generation of Polymerosomes from Double-Emulsions
Controlled assembly of jammed colloidal shells on fluid droplets
Microstructure, Morphology, and Lifetime of Armored Bubbles Exposed to Surfactants
Impact, puncturing, and the self-healing of soap films
Mechanism for Flow-Rate Controlled Breakup in Confined Geometries:A Route to Monodisperse Emulsions
Formation of Droplets and Bubbles in a Microfluidic T-junction - Scaling and Mechanism of Break-up.
Experimental observations of the squeezing-to-dripping transition in T-shaped microfluidic junctions
Donald Aubrecht
Fabrication and Wetting Properties of Metallic Half-Shells with Sub-Micron Diameters
Liquids on topologically nano-patterned surfaces
A Design for Mixing Using Bubbles in Branched Microfluidic Channels
Microwave dielectric heating of drops in microfluidic devices
Energy absorption in a bamboo foam
From molecular noise to behavioral variability in a single bacterium
Microoxen: Microorganisms to Move Microscale Loads.
Bursting of soap films. I. An experimental study
Alexander Epstein
Skeleton of Euplectella sp.: Structural Hierarchy from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale
Self-Assembly of Hexagonal Rods Based on Capillary Forces
Photoreactive coating for high-contrast spatial patterning of microfluidic device wettability
Biomimetic self-assembly of helical electrical circuits using orthogonal capillary interactions
Planarization of Substrate Topography by Spin Coating
Smart responsive surfaces switching reversibly between super-hydrophobicity and super-hydrophilicity
Slippery questions about complex fluids flowing past solids
Nefeli Georgoulia
The soft framework of the cellular machine
Mixing with Bubbles: A Practical Technology for use with Portable Microfluidic Devices.
Like-charged particles at liquid interfaces
Dynamic equilibrium Mechanism for Surface Nanobubble Stabilization
Geometry and physics of wrinkling
Precursors to splashing of liquid droplets on a solid surface
Critical Casimir effect in three-dimensional Ising systems: Measurements on binary wetting films
Sung Hoon Kang
Spontaneous breakdown of superhydrophobicity
Imbibition by polygonal spreading on microdecorated surfaces
Reversible Switching of Hydrogel-Actuated Nanostructures into Complex Micropatterns
Capillary rise between elastic sheets
Patterned Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Toward a Synthetic Mimic of the Namib Desert Beetle
A Cascade of Structure in a Drop Falling from a Faucet
The hydrodynamics of water strider locomotion
Tom Kodger
Higher Order Assembly of Microtubules by Counter-ions: From Hexagonal Bundles to Living Necklaces
Onset of Buckling in Drying Droplets of Colloidal Suspension
Like-charged particles at a liquid liquid interface
Nonlinear mechanics of soft fibrous networks
Dissolution Arrest and Stability of Particle-Covered Bubbles
Sorell Massenburg
Self-Organization of a Mesoscale Bristle into Ordered, Hierarchical Helical Assemblies
Structural rearrangements that govern flow in colloidal glasses
Valve-based flow focusing for drop formation
Oscillations with Uniquely Long Periods in a Microfluidic Bubble Generator.
Substrate curvature resulting from the capillary forces of a liquid drop
Dynamically reconfigurable liquid-core liquid-cladding lens in a microfluidic channel
Three-dimensional microfluidic devices fabricated in layered paper and tape
Functionalized glass coating for PDMS microfluidic devices
Flowing Lattices of Bubbles as Tunable, Self-Assembled Diffraction Grating
Lidiya Mishchenko
Photonic Crystals from Emulsion Templates
Physical limits and design principles for plant and fungal movements
Dense Packing and Symmetry in Small Clusters of Microspheres
Assembly of Colloidal Particles by Evaporation on Surfaces with Patterned Hydrophobicity
Continuous Convective Assembling of Fine Particles into Two-Dimensional Arrays on Solid Surfaces
Osmotically driven shape-dependent colloidal separations
Mechanistic Principles of Colloidal Crystal Growth by Evaporation-Induced Convective Steering
Grain Boundary Scars and Spherical Crystallography
Nan Niu
Sickle cell vasoocclusion and rescue in a microfluidic device
Colloid Science - Non-spherical bubbles
Nonspherical Colloidosomes with Multiple Compartments from Double Emulsions
Perfectly Monodisperse Microbubbling by Capillary Flow Focusing
Capillarity Induced Negative Pressure of Water Plugs in Nanochannels
Electric-field-induced capillary attraction between like-charged particles at liquid interfaces
Capillary attraction: Like-charged particles at liquid interfaces
Lab on a Chip: Surface-induced droplet fusion in microfluidic devices
Programmable Assembly of Nanoarchitectures Using Genetically Engineered Viruses
Tony Orth
Short-Time Dynamics of Partial Wetting
Formation of Monodisperse Bubbles in a Microfluidic Flow-Focusing Device
Non-Linear Dynamics of a Flow-Focusing Bubble Generator: An Inverted Dripping Faucet
Self-Assembly of Gradient Concentric Rings via Solvent Evaporation from a Capillary Bridge
Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium States in Microfluidic Double Emulsions
Surface Tension Transport of Prey by Feeding Shorebirds: The Capillary Ratchet
Slippage of Water Past Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Forests in Microchannels
Self-Running Droplet: Emergence of Regular Motion from Nonequilibrium Noise
Pillar-induced droplet merging in microfluidic circuits
Drying-mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles
The universal dynamics of cell spreading
Gelation as arrested phase separation in short-ranged attractive colloid-polymer mixtures
Effects of topology on network evolution
Microscopic artificial swimmers
A non equilibrium mechanism for nanobubble stabilization
Non-Hermitian localization and population biology
Biomimetic self-assembly of helical electrical circuits using orthogonal capillary interactions
Scott Tsai
Imbibition by polygonal spreading on microdecorated surfaces
Dripping to Jetting Transitions in Coflowing Liquid Streams
Reactive spreading and recoil of oil on water
Dielectrophoretic manipulation of drops for high-speed microfluidic sorting devices
Variable-focus liquid lens for miniature cameras
Splashing on elastic membranes: The importance of early-time dynamics
Drop Splashing on a Dry Smooth Surface
Surface-induced droplet fusion in microfluidic devices
From Bouncing to Floating: Noncoalescence of Drops on a Fluid Bath
