September 26, 2023
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Smart Droplets Stabilized by Designer Surfactants: From Biomimicry to Active Motion to Materials Healing was recently published in Advanced Functional Materials by Zhefei Yang*, Deborah Snyder*, Ashlin Sathyan*, Anna Balazs and Todd Emrick.*  The authors highlight recent advances in smart emulsion droplets, with emphasis on the functional and reactive organic, polymer, and/or particle surfactants that “activate” the liquid-liquid interface to promote inter-droplet communication, autonomous or driven droplet motion, and emulsion inversion.

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