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Antoine Claude Jean Vian
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Related publications (8)
In situ quantification of osmotic pressure within living embryonic tissues
Sangwoo Kim, Antoine Claude Jean Vian
Mechanics is known to play a fundamental role in many cellular and developmental processes. Beyond active forces and material properties, osmotic pressure is believed to control essential cell and tissue characteristics. However, it remains very challengin ...
2023Shear Stress-Responsive Polymersome Nanoreactors Inspired by the Marine Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates
Esther Amstad, Antoine Claude Jean Vian
Some marine plankton called dinoflagellates emit light in response to the movement of surrounding water, resulting in a phenomenon called milky seas or sea sparkle. The underlying concept, a shear-stress induced permeabilisation of biocatalytic reaction co ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020Mechano-responsive microcapsules with uniform thin shells
Esther Amstad, Antoine Claude Jean Vian
Capsules often prolong the shelf-life of active ingredients, such as many types of drugs, food additives, or cosmetic substances, because they delay oxidation of these substances or prevent their reactions with molecules contained in the surrounding. If ca ...
2019Cross-talk between emulsion drops: how are hydrophilic reagents transported across oil phases?
Bart Deplancke, Esther Amstad, Antoine Claude Jean Vian, Gianluca Nicolas Etienne, Marjan Biocanin
Emulsion drops are frequently used as vessels, for example, to conduct biochemical reactions in small volumes or to perform screening assays at high throughputs while consuming minimal sample volumes. These applications typically require drops that do not ...
2018Capsules with submicron shells: production, stability, and leakage behavior
Capsules are often employed to prolong the shelf-life of active ingredients such as many drugs, food additives, or cosmetic substances because they delay their oxidation or prevent interactions with molecules contained in the surrounding. If designed prope ...
EPFL2018Scalable production of double emulsion drops with thin shells
Esther Amstad, Antoine Claude Jean Vian
Double emulsions are often used as containers to perform high throughput screening assays and as templates for capsules. These applications require double emulsions to be mechanically stable such that they do not coalesce during processing and storage. A p ...
2018Device and methods for shell phase removal of core-shell capsules
Esther Amstad, Antoine Claude Jean Vian
A device and method for the mechanical (partial or total) removal of the liquid phase of the external shell of a core-shell capsule is disclosed. The device comprises a main channel having at least one inlet, one outlet and a tubular element in between, ad ...
2017Reducing the shell thickness of double emulsions using microfluidics
Esther Amstad, Antoine Claude Jean Vian
Double emulsion drops are well-suited templates to produce capsules whose dimensions can be conveniently tuned by adjusting those of the drops. To closely control the release kinetics of encapsulants, the composition and thickness of the capsule shell must ...
Springer Verlag2016