PMID- 29359941
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180508
LR  - 20180508
IS  - 1520-5827 (Electronic)
IS  - 0743-7463 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 7
DP  - 2018 Feb 20
TI  - Evaporation, Lifetime, and Robustness Studies of Liquid Marbles for 
      Collision-Based Computing.
PG  - 2573-2580
LID - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04196 [doi]
AB  - Liquid marbles (LMs) have recently attracted interest for use as cargo carriers 
      in digital microfluidics and have successfully been implemented as signal 
      carriers in collision-based unconventional computing circuits. Both application 
      domains require LMs to roll over substantial distances and to survive a certain 
      number of collisions without degrading. To evaluate the lifetime of LMs being 
      subjected to movement and impact stresses, we have selected four types of coating 
      to investigate: polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), ultrahigh density polyethylene 
      (PE), Ni, and a mixture of Ni with PE (Ni-PE). Hierarchies of robustness have 
      been constructed which showed that pure PE LMs survived the longest when 
      stationary and in motion. Pure PTFE LMs were shown to be the least resilient to 
      multiple impacts. The PTFE coating provided minimal protection against 
      evaporative losses for small LM volumes (2 and 5 muL) however, larger LMs (10 muL) 
      were shown to have good evaporative stabilities when stationary. Conversely, PE 
      LMs showed a remarkable ability to withstand multiple impacts and were also 
      stable when considering just passive evaporation. Hybrid Ni-PE LMs exhibited more 
      resilience to multiple impacts compared to Ni LMs. Thus, when designing LM 
      devices, it is paramount to determine impact pathways and select appropriate 
      coating materials.
FAU - Fullarton, Claire
AU  - Fullarton C
AD  - Unconventional Computing Laboratory, double daggerInstitute of Biosensing Technology, Centre 
      for Research in Biosciences, University of the West of England , Coldharbour 
      Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K.
FAU - Draper, Thomas C
AU  - Draper TC
AD  - Unconventional Computing Laboratory, double daggerInstitute of Biosensing Technology, Centre 
      for Research in Biosciences, University of the West of England , Coldharbour 
      Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K.
FAU - Phillips, Neil
AU  - Phillips N
AD  - Unconventional Computing Laboratory, double daggerInstitute of Biosensing Technology, Centre 
      for Research in Biosciences, University of the West of England , Coldharbour 
      Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K.
FAU - Mayne, Richard
AU  - Mayne R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1915-4993
AD  - Unconventional Computing Laboratory, double daggerInstitute of Biosensing Technology, Centre 
      for Research in Biosciences, University of the West of England , Coldharbour 
      Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K.
FAU - de Lacy Costello, Ben P J
AU  - de Lacy Costello BPJ
AD  - Unconventional Computing Laboratory, double daggerInstitute of Biosensing Technology, Centre 
      for Research in Biosciences, University of the West of England , Coldharbour 
      Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K.
FAU - Adamatzky, Andrew
AU  - Adamatzky A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1073-2662
AD  - Unconventional Computing Laboratory, double daggerInstitute of Biosensing Technology, Centre 
      for Research in Biosciences, University of the West of England , Coldharbour 
      Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, U.K.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20180206
PL  - United States
TA  - Langmuir
JT  - Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
JID - 9882736
EDAT- 2018/01/24 06:00
MHDA- 2018/01/24 06:01
CRDT- 2018/01/24 06:00
PHST- 2018/01/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/01/24 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/01/24 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04196 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Langmuir. 2018 Feb 20;34(7):2573-2580. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04196. Epub 
      2018 Feb 6.