Polymers Put the Squeeze on Liquid Droplets
Researchers from the Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials demonstrate how elastic networks can control the nucleation and ripening of encapsulated droplets.
Ripening of oil droplets in a gradient of elastic stiffness (external page see paper for more details).
Elastic ripening and inhibition of liquid–liquid phase separation Kathryn A. Rosowski, Tianqi Sai, Estefania Vidal-Henriquez, David Zwicker, Robert W. Style & Eric R. Dufresne Nature Physics (2020). external page DOI:/10.1038/s41567-019-0767-2, external page PDF