Stimuli-controlled movement of droplets and polymeric “vehicles”
Francis, Wayne, Florea, LarisaORCID: 0000-0002-4704-2393 and Diamond, DermotORCID: 0000-0003-2944-4839
(2015)
Stimuli-controlled movement of droplets and polymeric “vehicles”.
In: CIMTEC 2014 – 6th Forum on New Materials, 15-19 June 2014, Montecatini Terme, Italy.
Stimuli-responsive materials have gained much attention recently as new means for fluid flow control within the field of microfluidics. The ability to control of droplets and polymeric “vehicles” in a contactless manner within microfluidic chips offers new and exciting possibilities such as directed transport of molecular cargo to desired destinations and dynamic sensing of the fluidic environment during movement.