By imitating natural water circulation, artificial water generation processes can produce
clean water by utilizing readily available and inexhaustible solar energy. Such a process …

▪ Abstract This review summarizes recent experimental studies of instabilities in free-surface
flows driven by thermocapillarity. Two broad classes are considered, depending upon …

Improving evaporation rate is extremely important to promote the application of solar steam
generation in clean water production through seawater desalination. However, the …

A century after Henri Bénard discovered cellular convective structures, thermal convection in
fluid layers still remains a central subject in nonlinear physics. Within this framework, surface …

Interfacial Phenomena and Convection is a self-contained monograph that examines a rich
variety of phenomena in which interfaces play a crucial role. From a unified perspective that …

By controlling solvent evaporation rates, it has been possible to form micrometer rings and
hexagonal arrays made of nanocrystals of different sizes, shapes and materials. Such …

The intermolecular self‐crosslinking of functionalized macromolecules under ultra‐dilute
conditions (see Figure) provides a versatile approach to the preparation of nanoparticles …

Rings and hexagonal arrays of nanocrystals (see Figure), where the structures correspond
to the micrometer wavelength range, are shown to be produced by controlling the deposition …

An experimental study of time-dependent Bénard-Marangoni convection in small aspect
ratio containers and high Prandtl number fluids is presented. Two similar systems with the …

A simple route to highly regular concentric ring patterns of an organometallic polymer, poly (
ferrocenyldimethylsilane)(PFDMS), is developed simply by allowing a drop containing …