“…The resemblance was nonetheless of interest, since LMs display some remarkable properties, e.g., extreme recoverable deformability, low evaporation rate, and the ability to come into non-wetting contact with solid surfaces and to float on water (McHale and Newton, 2011 , 2015 ; Janardan et al, 2015 ). These properties have in turn inspired a range of proposed applications for LMs, including gas sensors (Tian et al, 2010 ), bioreactors (Arbatan et al, 2012a , b ), encapsulation media (Eshtiaghi et al, 2010 ; Ueno et al, 2014 ), pressure-sensitive adhesives (Fujii et al, 2016a ) and materials delivery carriers (Paven et al, 2016 ; Kawashima et al, 2017 ).…”