Damien Baigl

TL;DR: A method to control the organization and thickness of multilayered phospholipid films is described and two distinct regimes dominating the film deposition are found.

TL;DR: This new phenomenon, the "chromocapillary effect", an interfacial flow generates droplet motion in the direction opposite to the gradient in a liquid/liquid interface.

TL;DR: It is shown that a complete toolbox is now available to control microfluidic systems by light, which includes the use of radiation pressure, optical tweezers, light-induced wettability gradients, the thermocapillary effect, photosensitive surfactants, the chromocapilla effect, optoelectrowetting, photocontrolled electroosmotic flows and optical dielectrophoresis.

TL;DR: It is shown that the surfactant-mediated interactions between particles and the liquid-gas and liquid-solid interfaces, rather than the flow patterns, primarily define the morphology of the dry deposit in a robust and reproducible manner.

TL;DR: This review provides a physico-chemical description of DNA compaction, and shows how regulated compaction/decompaction can be used to control gene activity in vitro, with a particular emphasis on the use of light to reversibly control gene expression.