During the last three decades, a series of key technological improvements turned atomic
force microscopy (AFM) into a nanoscopic laboratory to directly observe and chemically …

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one of the most widely used nanomaterials in our daily life. In
1972, Fujishima and Honda reported the photo electrolysis of water into H2 and O2 utilizing …

Nature has developed materials, objects, and processes that function from the macroscale to
the nanoscale. The emerging field of biomimetics allows one to mimic biology or nature to …

Fracture mechanics is an essential discipline for predicting the safe operating limits of
structures containing flaws such as small interior or surface cracks. It is originally based on …

The hydration lubrication paradigm, whereby hydration layers are both strongly held by the
charges they surround, and so can support large pressures without being squeezed out, and …

The macroscopic motion of liquids on a flat solid surface was manipulated reversibly by
photoirradiation of a photoisomerizable monolayer covering the surface. When a liquid …

A contact angle observed for a liquid-solid system is not necessarily a unique value and a
few different contact angles need to be carefully considered in relation to liquid spreading …

Illness as the result of ingesting bacterially contaminated foodstuffs represents a significant
annual loss of human quality of life and economic impact globally. Significant research …

In this paper are discussed some of the fundamental principles which are relevant to an
understanding of the influence that interfacial roughness may have on adhesion. The …

We report the design of surfaces that exhibit dynamic changes in interfacial properties, such
as wettability, in response to an electrical potential. The change in wetting behavior was …