A Chinese university research team demonstrated a rapid and on-demand assembly of liquids. The research team says this approach, inspired by toy building blocks, brings a combinable, reconfigurable approach to building fluidic devices.
Traditional liquid device devices are expensive and time-consuming to manufacture, and usually rely on pre-designed solid walls to confine the liquid, or use complex capillary structures to control liquid behavior. They note that structures built using this method can be completed in a matter of minutes to tens of minutes.