Effective manipulation of liquids on open surfaces without external energy input is
indispensable for the advancement of point-of-care diagnostic devices. Open-surface …

Bioinspired smart functional surfaces have received increasing attention in recent years
owed to their tunable wettability and enhanced droplet transport suggesting them as …

Harvesting fog is a charming approach to alleviating the global water shortage crisis.
However, it is extremely challenging to design fog collectors with high efficiency due to the …

Water collection from the air is a convenient and efficient solution to the freshwater shortage.
However, the lack of geometry-driven structures limits the development of high-efficiency …

Realizing programmable assembly and reconfiguration of small objects holds promise for
technologically-significant applications in such fields as micromechanical systems …

The mini-generator of electrical energy exploiting Marangoni soluto-capillary flows is
reported. The interfacial flows are created by molecules of camphor emitted by the “camphor …

Two bodies resting at a fluid interface may interact laterally due to the surface deformations
they induce. Here we use an applied magnetic force to perform direct measurements of the …

Understanding and controlling the behaviors of bubbles on the surface of macroporous
materials (SMM) are of vital importance in the development of industrial catalysis, mass …

In this study, a stable and highly hydrophobic perfluoroctylsilane grafted Ti 3 C 2 X
(PFMXene) possessing repeatable and stable photothermal behavior was applied for …

Ground military target recognition plays a crucial role in unmanned equipment and grasping
the battlefield dynamics for military applications, but is disturbed by low-resolution and noisy …