Programmable Inter‐Droplet Communication by Polymer‐Gated Ion Transport Through Nanopore Lattices
Marius Kirsch, Agustin D. Pizarro, Martín G. Bellino, Galo J. A. A. Soler‐Illia, Annette Andrieu‐Brunsen · 2026
Read Programmable Inter‐Droplet Communication by Polymer‐Gated Ion Transport Through Nanopore Lattices by Marius Kirsch, Agustin D. Pizarro, Martín G. Bellino, Galo J. A. A. Soler‐Illia, Annette Andrieu‐Brunsen (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13431961.txt.
Description
Marius Kirsch and co-authors built a thin porous film in 2026 that lets salt droplets trade ions on a set schedule, gated by a charged plastic barrier drawn with a laser. Drops set on the film soak in fast thanks to strong pull in the tiny pores. The barrier sits inside the film and can be tuned by width from a soft sieve to a full wall.
Four salt mixes crossed the barrier at unlike speeds, since each ion feels the barrier's pull in its own way. Past the barrier, soak fronts crept toward a steady state when passage ran free, while blocked mixes pulsed and stalled. The team also placed drops by barrier site to steer where a solid crust forms inside the pores. The authors pitch the film as a bench for split, re-set fluid talk across far tanks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marius Kirsch, Agustin D. Pizarro, Martín G. Bellino, Galo J. A. A. Soler‐Illia, Annette Andrieu‐Brunsen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |