Preprogramming Floating Time of Liquid Marble

Non‐sticking droplets wrapped with fine hydrophobic particles, namely liquid marbles, can be transported both on solid and water pool without an undesired spill of the inner encapsulated liquid. While the stimuli‐responsive release of the inner liquid in the target area is proposed, the time‐programmed release is not yet achieved. Herein, the hydrophobicity of nanoclay is modulated via a catalyst‐free 1,4‐conjugate addition reaction to form liquid marbles. This nanoclay liquid marble is robust and stable in air but collapses on the liquid pool with a specific lifetime. The lifetime of the liquid marble can be modulated over seconds to hours scale depending on the selection of chemically modulated wettability of the nanoclay. The critical mechanism of lifetime modulation is responsible for controlling the coalescence kinetics between the water pool and inner liquid by nanoclays’ high diffusion length and chemically varied water spreading potential. The NC liquid marble's programmable lifetime to ‘time‐bomb’ type drug release and cascade chemical reaction is applied—without requiring any external intervention.

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