A5054543239- Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
- Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
- Aerogels and thermal insulation
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery
- Material Dynamics and Properties
- Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
- Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films
- Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
- Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2022-2024
The assembly of colloidal particles at liquid/liquid or air/liquid interfaces is a versatile procedure to create microstructured monolayers and study their behavior under compression. When combined with soft deformable such as microgels, compression used tune not only the interparticle distance but also underlying microstructure monolayer. So far, great majority studies on microgel-laden conducted ex situ after transfer solid substrates, for example, via Langmuir-Blodgett deposition. This...
Abstract Thin films made of deformable micro‐ and nano‐units, such as biological membranes, polymer interfaces, particle‐laden liquid surfaces, exhibit a complex behavior during drying, with consequences for various applications like wound healing, coating technologies, additive manufacturing. Studying the drying dynamics structural changes soft colloidal thus holds potential to yield valuable insights achieve improvements applications. In this study, interfacial monolayers core‐shell (CS)...
Micron-sized hard core-soft shell hybrid microgels are promising model systems for studies of soft matter as they enable in-situ optical investigations and their structures/morphologies can be engineered with a great variety. Yet, protocols that yield micron-sized core-shell tailorable shell-to-core size ratio rarely available. In this work, we report on the one-pot synthesis protocol silica-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) has excellent control over ratio. Small-angle light scattering microscopy...
Thin films made of deformable micro- and nano-units, such as biological membranes, polymer interfaces, particle-laden liquid surfaces, exhibit a complex behavior during drying, with consequences for various applications like wound healing, coating technologies, additive manufacturing. Studying the drying dynamics structural changes soft colloidal thus holds potential to yield valuable insights achieve improvements applications. In this study, we employ interfacial monolayers core-shell...
The assembly of colloidal particles at liquid/liquid or air/liquid interfaces is a versatile procedure to create microstructured monolayers and study their behavior under compression. When combined with soft deformable such as microgels, compression used tune not only the interparticle distance but also underlying microstructure monolayer. So far, great majority studies on microgel-laden conducted ex situ after transfer solid substrates, for example, via Langmuir-Blodgett deposition. This...