Friction is a phenomenon that exists extensively in nature and industry; it has proven
necessary in daily life and beneficial in energy scavenging but is also alleged to be the main …

Superlubricity, the state of ultralow friction between two sliding surfaces, has become a
frontier subject in tribology. Here, a state-of-the-art review of the phenomena and …

Water is an essential participant in the stability, structure, dynamics, and function of proteins
and other biomolecules. Thermodynamically, changes in the aqueous environment affect …

Understanding and controlling the flow of water confined in nanopores has tremendous
implications in theoretical studies and industrial applications. Here, we propose a simple …

Nanometre-scale pores and capillaries have long been studied because of their importance
in many natural phenomena and their use in numerous applications. A more recent …

The delamination of layered crystals that produces single or few‐layered nanosheets while
enabling exotic physical and chemical properties, particularly for semiconductor functions in …

Water-based lubricants provide lubrication of rubbing surfaces in many technical, biological,
and physiological applications. The structure of hydrated ion layers adsorbed on solid …

Permeation through nanometer pores is important in the design of materials for filtration and
separation techniques and because of unusual fundamental behavior arising at the …

Super‐hydrophilic cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) hold great potential in fabricating
antifouling surfaces based on their high‐water binding affinity. However, integrating CNCs …

Conspectus In the course of evolution, nature has achieved remarkably lubricated surfaces,
with healthy articular cartilage in the major (synovial) joints being the prime example, that …