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  1. Capsules with bacteria and fungi in distinct compartments: A platform for studying microbes from different kingdoms and their cross-communication
  2. Microfluidic generation of uniform water droplets using gas as the continuous phase
  3. Assessment of surfactants for efficient droplet PCR in mineral oil using the pendant drop technique
  4. Hydrophobically-modified chitosan foam: description and hemostatic efficacy
  5. Mixtures of Lecithin and Bile Salt Can Form Highly Viscous Wormlike Micellar Solutions in Water
  6. Nanodiamond gels in nonpolar media: Colloidal and rheological properties
  7. An Effective Dispersant for Oil Spills Based on Food-Grade Amphiphiles
  8. Liposomal nanoprobes that combine anti-EGFR antibodies and MRI contrast agents: synthesis and in vitro characterization
  9. Tyrosinase-mediated grafting and crosslinking of natural phenols confers functional properties to chitosan
  10. Superabsorbent Hydrogels That Are Robust and Highly Stretchable
  11. Reversible gelation of cells using self-assembling hydrophobically-modified biopolymers: towards self-assembly of tissue
  12. Insights into organogelation and its kinetics from Hansen solubility parameters. Toward a priori predictions of molecular gelation
  13. Photo-activated ionic gelation of alginate hydrogel: real-time rheological monitoring of the two-step crosslinking mechanism
  14. Hybrid hydrogel sheets that undergo pre-programmed shape transformations
  15. Gelation of Vesicles and Nanoparticles Using Water-Soluble Hydrophobically Modified Chitosan
  16. Microfluidic Assembly of Janus-Like Dimer Capsules
  17. Self-Destructing “Mothership” Capsules for Timed Release of Encapsulated Contents
  18. How Do Liquid Mixtures Solubilize Insoluble Gelators? Self-Assembly Properties of Pyrenyl-Linker-Glucono Gelators in Tetrahydrofuran–Water Mixtures
  19. Attachment of a Hydrophobically Modified Biopolymer at the Oil–Water Interface in the Treatment of Oil Spills
  20. Synergistic Gelation of Silica Nanoparticles and a Sorbitol-Based Molecular Gelator to Yield Highly-Conductive Free-Standing Gel Electrolytes
  21. Pyrenyl-Linker-Glucono Gelators. Correlations of Gel Properties with Gelator Structures and Characterization of Solvent Effects
  22. Photoreversible Micellar Solution as a Smart Drag-Reducing Fluid for Use in District Heating/Cooling Systems
  23. Rare cell capture with chitosan microparticles
  24. Light-induced transformation of vesicles to micelles and vesicle-gels to sols
  25. A simple route to fluids with photo-switchable viscosities based on a reversible transition between vesicles and wormlike micelles
  26. Accessing biology's toolbox for the mesoscale biofabrication of soft matter
  27. Reverse self-assembly of lipid onions induced by gadolinium and calcium ions
  28. Microfluidic synthesis of macroporous polymer immunobeads
  29. Biopolymer-Connected Liposome Networks as Injectable Biomaterials Capable of Sustained Local Drug Delivery
  30. Encapsulated fusion protein confers “sense and respond” activity to chitosan-alginate capsules to manipulate bacterial quorum sensing
  31. Glucose Oxidase-Mediated Gelation: A Simple Test To Detect Glucose in Food Products
  32. Shedding Light on Helical Microtubules: Real-Time Observations of Microtubule Self-Assembly by Light Microscopy
  33. A New Approach for Creating Polymer Hydrogels with Regions of Distinct Chemical, Mechanical, and Optical Properties
  34. Gel Sculpture: Moldable, Load-Bearing and Self-Healing Non-Polymeric Supramolecular Gel Derived from a Simple Organic Salt
  35. Biofabricating Multifunctional Soft Matter with Enzymes and Stimuli-Responsive Materials
  36. Structural analysis of “flexible” liposome formulations: new insights into the skin-penetrating ability of soft nanostructures
  37. The conundrum of gel formation by molecular nanofibers, wormlike micelles, and filamentous proteins: gelation without cross-links?
  38. A new method for centrifugal separation of blood components: Creating a rigid barrier between density-stratified layers using a UV-curable thixotropic gel
  39. Microfluidic synthesis of monodisperse PDMS microbeads as discrete oxygen sensors
  40. Regulating Oxygen Levels in a Microfluidic Device
  41. Light-Activated Ionic Gelation of Common Biopolymers
  42. A New Approach to In-Situ “Micromanufacturing”: Microfluidic Fabrication of Magnetic and Fluorescent Chains Using Chitosan Microparticles as Building Blocks
  43. Reversible Photorheological Fluids Based on Spiropyran-Doped Reverse Micelles
  44. Light-Responsive Threadlike Micelles as Drag Reducing Fluids with Enhanced Heat-Transfer Capabilities
  45. A self-assembling hydrophobically modified chitosan capable of reversible hemostatic action
  46. Unraveling the Mechanism of Nanotube Formation by Chiral Self-Assembly of Amphiphiles
  47. Vesicle capture on patterned surfaces coated with amphiphilic biopolymers
  48. Biopolymer capsules bearing polydiacetylenic vesicles as colorimetric sensors of pH and temperature
  49. Nanoparticle-crosslinked hydrogels as a class of efficient materials for separation and ion exchange
  50. Carbon microspheres as network nodes in a novel biocompatible gel
  51. Supramolecular Synthons in Designing Low Molecular Mass Gelling Agents: L-Amino Acid Methyl Ester Cinnamate Salts and their Anti-Solvent-Induced Instant Gelation
  52. Can Simple Salts Influence Self-Assembly in Oil? Multivalent Cations as Efficient Gelators of Lecithin Organosols
  53. Sugar-Derived Phase-Selective Molecular Gelators as Model Solidifiers for Oil Spills
  54. Manipulating Quantum Dots to Nanometer Precision by Control of Flow
  55. Microfluidic Directed Self-Assembly of Liposome−Hydrogel Hybrid Nanoparticles
  56. Thermogelling Aqueous Fluids Containing Low Concentrations of Pluronic F127 and Laponite Nanoparticles
  57. Making a frothy shampoo or beer
  58. Nonaqueous Photorheological Fluids Based on Light-Responsive Reverse Wormlike Micelles
  59. Thermothickening in Solutions of Telechelic Associating Polymers and Cyclodextrins
  60. Application of PET deprotection for orthogonal photocontrol of aqueous solution viscosity
  61. A Noninvasive Thin Film Sensor for Monitoring Oxygen Tension during in Vitro Cell Culture
  62. Origins of the Viscosity Peak in Wormlike Micellar Solutions. 1. Mixed Catanionic Surfactants. A Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy Study
  63. pH-Responsive Jello: Gelatin Gels Containing Fatty Acid Vesicles †
  64. Distinct Character of Surfactant Gels: A Smooth Progression from Micelles to Fibrillar Networks †
  65. Combinatorial Library of Primaryalkylammonium Dicarboxylate Gelators: A Supramolecular Synthon Approach †
  66. Nanostructured Polymers Prepared Using a Self-Assembled Nanofibrillar Scaffold as a Reverse Template
  67. Photogelling Colloidal Dispersions Based on Light-Activated Assembly of Nanoparticles
  68. Polymerizable Vesicles Based on a Single-Tailed Fatty Acid Surfactant: A Simple Route to Robust Nanocontainers
  69. A Simple Method To Improve the Clarity and Rheological Properties of Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites by Using Fractionated Clay Particles
  70. Persistence of Birefringence in Sheared Solutions of Wormlike Micelles
  71. Photogelling fluids based on light-activated growth of zwitterionic wormlike micelles
  72. Conductivity enhancement of carbon nanotube and nanofiber-based polymer nanocomposites by melt annealing
  73. Strain-Stiffening Response in Transient Networks Formed by Reverse Wormlike Micelles
  74. Influence of Binary Surfactant Mixtures on the Rheology of Associative Polymer Solutions
  75. A Facile Route for Creating “Reverse” Vesicles: Insights into “Reverse” Self-Assembly in Organic Liquids
  76. Liposome-Templated Supramolecular Assembly of Responsive Alginate Nanogels
  77. Self-assembled organogels obtained by adding minute concentrations of a bile salt to AOT reverse micelles
  78. Wormlike Micelles of a C22-Tailed Zwitterionic Betaine Surfactant:  From Viscoelastic Solutions to Elastic Gels
  79. Quantitative characterization of the formation of an interpenetrating phase composite in polystyrene from the percolation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes
  80. Electrical and Rheological Percolation in Polystyrene/MWCNT Nanocomposites
  81. Effects of aspect ratio of MWNT on the flammability properties of polymer nanocomposites
  82. Surfactant Vesicles for High-Efficiency Capture and Separation of Charged Organic Solutes
  83. A Simple Class of Photorheological Fluids:  Surfactant Solutions with Viscosity Tunable by Light
  84. Chitosan: a soft interconnect for hierarchical assembly of nano-scale components
  85. Contrasting Effects of Temperature on the Rheology of Normal and Reverse Wormlike Micelles
  86. Reversible Vesicle Restraint in Response to Spatiotemporally Controlled Electrical Signals:  A Bridge between Electrical and Chemical Signaling Modes †
  87. Distinct Kinetic Pathways Generate Organogel Networks with Contrasting Fractality and Thixotropic Properties
  88. Highly Efficient Capture and Long-Term Encapsulation of Dye by Catanionic Surfactant Vesicles
  89. Self-Assembly of Surfactant Vesicles that Transform into Viscoelastic Wormlike Micelles upon Heating
  90. A New Reverse Wormlike Micellar System:  Mixtures of Bile Salt and Lecithin in Organic Liquids
  91. Bioinspired Vesicle Restraint and Mobilization Using a Biopolymer Scaffold
  92. Transition from Unilamellar to Bilamellar Vesicles Induced by an Amphiphilic Biopolymer
  93. Influence of polymer viscoelasticity on the residence distributions of extruders
  94. Viscosity Increase with Temperature in Cationic Surfactant Solutions Due to the Growth of Wormlike Micelles
  95. Salt Effects on the Phase Behavior, Structure, and Rheology of Chromonic Liquid Crystals
  96. Anionic Wormlike Micellar Fluids that Display Cloud Points:  Rheology and Phase Behavior
  97. Kinetics of 5α-Cholestan-3β-yl N -(2-Naphthyl)carbamate/ n -Alkane Organogel Formation and Its Influence on the Fibrillar Networks
  98. Shear-Induced Phase Separation in Solutions of Wormlike Micelles
  99. Enzymatic Grafting of Peptides from Casein Hydrolysate to Chitosan. Potential for Value-Added Byproducts from Food-Processing Wastes
  100. Silica Hollow Spheres by Templating of Catanionic Vesicles
  101. Wormlike Micelles Formed by Synergistic Self-Assembly in Mixtures of Anionic and Cationic Surfactants
  102. Microstructural Changes in SDS Micelles Induced by Hydrotropic Salt
  103. Effect of Colloidal Fillers on the Cross-Linking of a UV-Curable Polymer:  Gel Point Rheology and the Winter−Chambon Criterion
  104. Highly Viscoelastic Wormlike Micellar Solutions Formed by Cationic Surfactants with Long Unsaturated Tails
  105. Thermoreversible gelation in aqueous dispersions of colloidal particles bearing grafted poly(ethylene oxide) chains
  106. Microstructure and Dynamics of Wormlike Micellar Solutions Formed by Mixing Cationic and Anionic Surfactants
  107. Rheology of Silica Dispersions in Organic Liquids:  New Evidence for Solvation Forces Dictated by Hydrogen Bonding
  108. Colloidal Interactions between Particles with Tethered Nonpolar Chains Dispersed in Polar Media:  Direct Correlation between Dynamic Rheology and Interaction Parameters
  109. Enhanced Miscibility of Low-Molecular-Weight Polystyrene/Polyisoprene Blends in Supercritical CO 2
  110. Associative polymers bearing n-alkyl hydrophobes: Rheological evidence for microgel-like behavior
  111. Composite polymer electrolytes using surface-modified fumed silicas: conductivity and rheology
  112. Composite Polymer Electrolytes Based on Poly(ethylene glycol) and Hydrophobic Fumed Silica:  Dynamic Rheology and Microstructure
  113. Rheological study of crosslinking and gelation in chlorobutyl elastomer systems
  114. Shear-induced microstructural changes in flocculated suspensions of fumed silica
  115. Gel Formation: Phase Diagrams Using Tabletop Rheology and Calorimetry