ArticleScience advances2021
Liquid crystal-based open surface microfluidics manipulate liquid mobility and chemical composition on demand.
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- Liquid Crystal Biosensors: Principles, Structure and Applications.Biosensors · 2022Review
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Abstract
The ability to control both the mobility and chemical compositions of microliter-scale aqueous droplets is an essential prerequisite for next-generation open surface microfluidics. Independently manipulating the chemical compositions of aqueous droplets without altering their mobility, however, remains challenging. In this work, we address this challenge by designing a class of open surface microfluidic platforms based on thermotropic liquid crystals (LCs). We demonstrate, both experimentally and theoretically, that the unique positional and orientational order of LC molecules intrinsically decouple cargo release functionality from droplet mobility via selective phase transitions. Furthermore, we build sodium sulfide–loaded LC surfaces that can efficiently precipitate heavy metal ions in sliding water droplets to final concentration less than 1 part per million for more than 500 cycles without causing droplets to become pinned. Overall, our results reveal that LC surfaces offer unique possibilities for the design of novel open surface fluidic systems with orthogonal functionalities.
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