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SUBMITTER: Tian L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5059748 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tian Liangfei L Martin Nicolas N Bassindale Philip G PG Patil Avinash J AJ Li Mei M Barnes Adrian A Drinkwater Bruce W BW Mann Stephen S
Nature communications 20161006
The spontaneous assembly of chemically encoded, molecularly crowded, water-rich micro-droplets into periodic defect-free two-dimensional arrays is achieved in aqueous media by a combination of an acoustic standing wave pressure field and in situ complex coacervation. Acoustically mediated coalescence of primary droplets generates single-droplet per node micro-arrays that exhibit variable surface-attachment properties, spontaneously uptake dyes, enzymes and particles, and display spatial and time ...[more]