"Liquid marbles are used as microreactors to house various chemical, biochemical and biological purposes like growing cells and applications such as the common PCR, a DNA amplification technique ...

Here, a liquid droplet is not confined to a closed channel and there is no risk of it being adsorbed on a channel wall. A 'liquid marble' – a non-stick drop of liquid (such as water and organic ...

The powder coating turned the drop into a liquid marble, trapping the fluid inside. The team put one of these marbles in a pool of water and illuminated the marble with a laser. As the polypyrrole ...

While these clichés may be a bit tired, they exist for a reason — and that reason currently resides in a very impressive laser-powered liquid marble. Scientists at the Osaka Institute of ...