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McHale G, Newton MI. Liquid marbles: topical context within soft matter and recent progress. Soft Matter. 2015;11(13):2530-46doi: 10.1039/c5sm00084j.
McHale, G., & Newton, M. I. (2015). Liquid marbles: topical context within soft matter and recent progress. Soft matter, 11(13), 2530-46. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm00084j
McHale, G, and Newton, M I. "Liquid marbles: topical context within soft matter and recent progress." Soft matter vol. 11,13 (2015): 2530-46. doi: https://doi.org/10.1039/c5sm00084j
McHale G, Newton MI. Liquid marbles: topical context within soft matter and recent progress. Soft Matter. 2015 Apr 07;11(13):2530-46. doi: 10.1039/c5sm00084j. PMID: 25723648.
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Soft Matter. 2015 Apr 07;11(13):2530-46. doi: 10.1039/c5sm00084j.

Liquid marbles: topical context within soft matter and recent progress.

Soft matter

G McHale, M I Newton

Affiliations

  1. Smart Materials & Surfaces Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering & Environment, Northumbria University, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK. [email protected].

PMID: 25723648 DOI: 10.1039/c5sm00084j

Abstract

The study of particle stabilized interfaces has a long history in terms of emulsions, foams and related dry powders. The same underlying interfacial energy principles also allow hydrophobic particles to encapsulate individual droplets into a stable form as individual macroscopic objects, which have recently been called "Liquid Marbles". Here we discuss conceptual similarities to superhydrophobic surfaces, capillary origami, slippery liquids-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) and Leidenfrost droplets. We provide a review of recent progress on liquid marbles, since our earlier Emerging Area article (Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 5473-5481), and speculate on possible future directions from new liquid-infused liquid marbles to microarray applications. We highlight a range of properties of liquid marbles and describe applications including detecting changes in physical properties (e.g. pH, UV, NIR, temperature), use for gas sensing, synthesis of compounds/composites, blood typing and cell culture.

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