磁响应快门用于按需液滴操控。
Magneto-Responsive Shutter for On-Demand Droplet Manipulation.
机构信息
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Sensor Technology and Biomedical Instrument, School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, 518107, China.
State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
出版信息
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2021 Dec;8(23):e2103182. doi: 10.1002/advs.202103182. Epub 2021 Oct 24.
Magnetically responsive structured surfaces enabling multifunctional droplet manipulation are of significant interest in both scientific and engineering research. To realize magnetic actuation, current strategies generally employ well-designed microarrays of high-aspect-ratio structure components (e.g., microcilia, micropillars, and microplates) with incorporated magnetism to allow reversible bending deformation driven by magnets. However, such magneto-responsive microarray surfaces suffer from highly restricted deformation range and poor control precision under magnetic field, restraining their droplet manipulation capability. Herein, a novel magneto-responsive shutter (MRS) design composed of arrayed microblades connected to a frame is developed for on-demand droplet manipulation. The microblades can perform two dynamical transformation operations, including reversible swing and rotation, and significantly, the transformation can be precisely controlled over a large rotation range with the highest rotation angle up to 3960°. Functionalized MRSs based on the above design, including Janus-MRS, superhydrophobic MRS (SHP-MRS) and lubricant infused slippery MRS (LIS-MRS), can realize a wide range of droplet manipulations, ranging from switchable wettability, directional droplet bounce, droplet distribution, and droplet merging, to continuous droplet transport along either straight or curved paths. MRS provides a new paradigm of using swing/rotation topographic transformation to replace conventional bending deformation for highly efficient and on-demand multimode droplet manipulation under magnetic actuation.
具有多功能液滴操控能力的磁响应结构化表面在科学和工程研究中都具有重要意义。为了实现磁驱动,目前的策略通常采用设计精良的高纵横比结构组件(例如微绒毛、微柱和微板)的微阵列,并结合磁性,以允许由磁铁驱动的可逆弯曲变形。然而,这种磁响应微阵列表面在磁场下受到高度限制的变形范围和较差的控制精度的限制,限制了它们的液滴操控能力。在此,设计了一种由连接到框架的阵列微刀片组成的新型磁响应快门(MRS),用于按需液滴操控。微刀片可以执行两种动力学转换操作,包括可逆摆动和旋转,而且,转换可以在大的旋转范围内进行精确控制,最高旋转角度可达 3960°。基于上述设计的功能化 MRS,包括 Janus-MRS、超疏水 MRS(SHP-MRS)和润滑剂注入的光滑 MRS(LIS-MRS),可以实现广泛的液滴操控,包括可切换润湿性、定向液滴反弹、液滴分布和液滴合并,以及沿着直线或曲线连续输送液滴。MRS 提供了一种新的范例,即使用摆动/旋转地形转换来替代传统的弯曲变形,以在磁驱动下实现高效、按需的多模式液滴操控。