Engineering of Fibrous Smart Materials, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Dept. Chemical Technologies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2014 Jul;209:109-26. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2014.02.020. Epub 2014 Mar 11.
Interfaces can be called Smart and Green (S&G) when tailored such that the required technologies can be implemented with high efficiency, adaptability and selectivity. At the same time they also have to be eco-friendly, i.e. products must be biodegradable, reusable or simply more durable. Bubble and drop interfaces are in many of these smart technologies the fundamental entities and help develop smart products of the everyday life. Significant improvements of these processes and products can be achieved by implementing and manipulating specific properties of these interfaces in a simple and smart way, in order to accomplish specific tasks. The severe environmental issues require in addition attributing eco-friendly features to these interfaces, by incorporating innovative, or, sometimes, recycle materials and conceiving new production processes which minimize the use of natural resources and energy. Such concept can be extended to include important societal challenges related to support a sustainable development and a healthy population. The achievement of such ambitious targets requires the technology research to be supported by a robust development of theoretical and experimental tools, needed to understand in more details the behavior of complex interfaces. A wide but not exhaustive review of recent work concerned with green and smart interfaces is presented, addressing different scientific and technological fields. The presented approaches reveal a huge potential in relation to various technological fields, such as nanotechnologies, biotechnologies, medical diagnostics, and new or improved materials.
当界面经过精心设计，使得所需的技术能够以高效率、适应性和选择性来实现时，就可以称之为智能和绿色（S&G）界面。同时，它们还必须是环保的，也就是说产品必须是可生物降解的、可重复使用的或更耐用的。在许多这些智能技术中，气泡和液滴界面是基本实体，有助于开发日常生活中的智能产品。通过以简单而智能的方式实施和操纵这些界面的特定特性，可以显著改进这些过程和产品。此外，严峻的环境问题要求这些界面具有环保功能，采用创新或有时回收材料，并设计新的生产工艺，最大限度地减少自然资源和能源的使用。这种概念可以扩展到包括与支持可持续发展和健康人口相关的重要社会挑战。为了实现这些雄心勃勃的目标，需要有强大的理论和实验工具的发展来支持技术研究，以便更详细地了解复杂界面的行为。本文对涉及绿色和智能界面的最近的工作进行了广泛但非详尽的回顾，涉及不同的科学和技术领域。所提出的方法在与纳米技术、生物技术、医疗诊断以及新材料或改进材料等各种技术领域相关的方面显示出巨大的潜力。
