Liquid Marbles as Miniature Reactors for Chemical and Biological Applications

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Nguyen, Nhat-Khuong
Ooi, Chin Hong
Singha, Pradip
Jin, Jing
Sreejith, Kamalalayam Rajan
Phan, Hoang-Phuong
Nguyen, Nam-Trung
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2020
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The need for miniaturised reaction systems has led to the development of various microreactor platforms, such as droplet-based microreactors. However, these microreactors possess inherent drawbacks, such as rapid evaporation and difficult handling, that limit their use in practical applications. Liquid marbles are droplets covered with hydrophobic particles and are a potential platform that can overcome the weaknesses of bare droplets. The coating particles completely isolate the interior liquids from the surrounding environment, thus conveniently encapsulating the reactions. Great efforts have been made over the past decade to demonstrate the feasibility of liquid marble-based microreactors for chemical and biological applications. This review systemically summarises state-of-the-art implementations of liquid marbles as microreactors. This paper also discusses the various aspects of liquid marble-based microreactors, such as the formation, manipulation, and future perspectives.

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Processes

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7

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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Nguyen, N-K; Ooi, CH; Singha, P; Jin, J; Sreejith, KR; Phan, H-P; Nguyen, N-T, Liquid Marbles as Miniature Reactors for Chemical and Biological Applications, Processes, 2020, 8 (7), pp. 793

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