{"id":233699,"date":"2026-03-20T03:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/building-a-better-more-precise-droplet"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:17:48","slug":"building-a-better-more-precise-droplet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/building-a-better-more-precise-droplet","title":{"rendered":"Building a better, more precise droplet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-a-better-more-precise-droplet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A humble droplet can be an immensely useful tool for a number of fields, from medicine to manufacturing. Controlling the size of the droplet, though, is an important\u2014and very tricky\u2014task. With unprecedented precision, a team of researchers determined how droplets break up into smaller ones, at what size, and under what conditions. The results of this study are <a href=\"https:\/\/xlink.rsc.org\/?DOI=D5SM01266J\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Soft Matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDroplets can be used as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-pi-day-rockets-cancer-embedded.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">microcontainers<\/a> that encapsulate small amounts of fluid and other components,\u201d said Prof. Corey O\u2019Hern, who led the study. Because of that, he said, they can be used to deliver drugs to the body, or to find the genomic signatures of a single cell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother cool application involves <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-09-nature-chemistry-health.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">microreactors<\/a>. You can put different concentrations of chemical species into the droplet, allow them to mix, and determine how they react.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A humble droplet can be an immensely useful tool for a number of fields, from medicine to manufacturing. Controlling the size of the droplet, though, is an important\u2014and very tricky\u2014task. With unprecedented precision, a team of researchers determined how droplets break up into smaller ones, at what size, and under what conditions. The results of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}