Research

Liquid-in-Liquid Printing

Yellow-dyed water is injected into a tube created by liquid-in-liquid printing.

With 3D printing and other recent technologies, manufacturing options are always in flux. Here, researchers explore a method for printing a liquid inside of a liquid. Their materials are specially chosen such that the injected liquid forms an emulsion at its interface with the surrounding fluid. Once injection ends, the interface forms a wrinkly, viscoelastic skin that acts like a tube. As shown below, the tube is robust enough that it can be pumped full of yellow-dyed water without any loss of structure. (Image and research credit: P. Bazazi et al.)

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