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Reconfiguring liquid devices

Designing liquid devices with liquid pathways that can be reconfigured on-demand is important to many chemical and biological applications. Now, a facile approach enables reconfigurable liquid devices through precisely arranged connected liquid droplets that can be rapidly assembled and disassembled.

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Fig. 1: The use of liquid building blocks to construct reconfigurable liquid devices.

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Wang, T., Wang, Z. Reconfiguring liquid devices. Nat Chem Eng 1, 136–137 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44286-023-00027-9

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