Bioinspired designs of superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic materials have been an
important and fascinating area of research in recent years for their extensive potential …

Natural fiber systems provide inspirations for artificial fiber spinning and applications.
Through a long process of trial and error, great progress has been made in recent years …

Smart control of wettability on superwetting surfaces has aroused much attention in the past
few years. Compared with traditional strategies such as adjusting the surface chemistry …

Here, a smart fluid‐controlled surface is designed, via the rational integration of the unique
properties of three natural examples, ie, the unidirectional wetting behaviors of butterfly's …

A facile strategy for the preparation of multifunctional Janus membranes (JMs) was
proposed, and excellent controllability of the multifunctional JMs was demonstrated in water …

A photoresponsive organogel surface (POS), which integrates characteristics of the
photothermal property of Fe3O4 nanoparticles and the low hysteresis feature of lubricant …

Surfaces with controllable liquid wettability and related functions have gained increasing
attention from interfacial scientists due to the high demand of fundamental research and …

A surface is said to be isotropic in wettability when the contact angles measured in all
direction are identical. On the contrary, once a surface shows distinct contact angles in …

Liquid uni‐directional transport on solid surface without energy input would advance a
variety of applications, such as in bio‐fluidic devices, self‐lubrication, and high‐resolution …

Effective, long-range, and self-propelled water elevation and transport are important in
industrial, medical, and agricultural applications. Although research has grown rapidly …