ArticleScience advances2021
A two-step strategy for delivering particles to targets hidden within microfabricated porous media.
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- Upper Bounds on the Colloid Separation Efficiency of Diffusiophoresis.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026Article
- Diffusiophoretic transport of colloids in porous media.Science advances · 2026Article
- Diffusiophoresis in porous media saturated with a mixture of electrolytes.Nanoscale advances · 2025Article
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- Unidirectional drying of a suspension of diffusiophoretic colloids under gravity.RSC advances · 2023Article
- Data-Driven Intelligent Manipulation of Particles in Microfluidics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Enhanced Accumulation of Colloidal Particles in Microgrooved Channels via Diffusiophoresis and Steady-State Electrolyte Flows.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2022Article
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Abstract
The delivery of small particles into porous environments remains highly challenging because of the low permeability to the fluids that carry these colloids. Even more challenging is that the specific location of targets in the porous environment usually is not known and cannot be determined from the outside. Here, we demonstrate a two-step strategy to deliver suspended colloids to targets that are "hidden" within closed porous media. The first step serves to automatically convert any hidden targets into soluto-inertial "beacons," capable of sustaining long-lived solute outfluxes. The second step introduces the deliverable objects, which are designed to autonomously migrate against the solute fluxes emitted by the targets, thereby following chemical trails that lead to the target. Experimental and theoretical demonstrations of the strategy lay out the design elements required for the solute and the deliverable objects, suggesting routes to delivering colloidal objects to hidden targets in various environments and technologies.
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