Interfacial Jamming: A Cast Net Thrown onto an Interface: Wrapping 3D Objects with an Interfacially Jammed Amphiphilic Sheet (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 7/2020)

In article number 1901751, Mengmeng Cui, Amit K. Naskar, and co-workers use lignin oligomers as renewable surfactant particles that form a 2D surfactant sheet via spontaneous unfolding at polar-nonpolar liquid interface-just like a cast net thrown onto the interface. Due to the significant interfacial activity, these amphiphilic molecules exhibit unique behavior in jamming, wrapping, and shaping novel non-equilibrium morphologies such as sealed porous microparticles that are hierarchically covered by surfactant membranes.