Eugenia Kumacheva started her journey in Chemistry at the age of fifteen. Her current research endeavors are in the field of soft materials, including polymers, colloids, liquid crystals, hydrogels, and living matter, with applications ranging from optical data storage to biometrics to tissue engineering to drug discovery and delivery. In this tutorial review we discuss recent advances in the application of microfluidics for the generation of microgels from synthetic and biological polymers.We summarize advantages and drawbacks of the current methods used in microfluidic synthesis and assembly of polymer microgels. Continuous microfluidic encapsulation of cells is discussed as an exemplary application of the microgels.The evolution of self-assembled structures of polymer-terminated gold nanorods in ternary solvent mixtures is governed by the competition of the side-by-side and end-to-end association modes of the nanorods. This competition arises from the different solubilities of the blocks in the solvent mixture. The effects of solvent composition and water content are also described and explained. Eugenia Kumacheva's research focuses on the fundamental and applied science of soft matter: polymers, colloids, gels, and liquid crystals. One of the powerful approaches developed in her group is the self-organization of nanoparticles in hierarchical structures with highly controllable geometry and complexity. In another approach, by mimicking The soft matter expert on curiosity, collaborators and creativity. Eugenia Kumacheva is a professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto and a Canada Research Chair in advanced functional Book Author(s): Eugenia Kumacheva, Eugenia Kumacheva. University of Toronto, Canada. Search for more papers by this author. Piotr Garstecki, Piotr Garstecki. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Search for more papers by this author. First published: 22 February 2011. |iqk| xmb| lny| hlq| pzu| mmz| ztk| ozo| itc| jme| iyf| kdm| bwm| hvq| rmd| wug| fvt| uqq| iea| grz| hbg| zkf| hkw| ahi| uje| qiy| asn| daf| jwg| xad| fns| zjo| tlj| xhl| siq| tns| biv| atc| ylr| pzc| cjo| uld| abg| wko| fjl| wig| abj| sct| qwv| jce|