Collecting microscale water droplets suspended in the wind, that is, fog, using permeable
surfaces is a promising solution to the worldwide problem of water scarcity and is of great …

Wetting phenomena and superhydrophobic surfaces are ubiquitous in nature and have
recently been explored widely in scientific and engineering applications. The understanding …

Dropwise condensation represents the upper limit of thermal transport efficiency for liquid-to-
vapor phase transition. A century of research has focused on promoting dropwise …

Surface roughness plays a significant role in floatability of coal. In the present paper, coking
coal surface was polished by three different sandpapers and the surface properties were …

On a solid surface, a droplet of liquid will stick due to the capillary adhesion, and this causes
low droplet mobility. To reduce contact line pinning, surface chemistry can be coupled to …

Although the effect of surface roughness on the floatability of a single mineral has been
investigated extensively, a systematic study for the effect of surface roughness on the …

The mobility of a fakir state droplet on a structured surface is fundamentally determined by
the effective length of a microscopic contact line. However, it is largely unknown how the …

Surface roughness of solid affects its interactions with gas bubbles in water. Here, we
investigate the effect of surface nano-scaled (random) roughness, quantified with the root …

A microelectronic balance system was employed to measure the force of spreading (snap-in
force) during water droplet attachment and spreading on polymer surfaces and the water …

Advances made in fabrication of patterned surfaces with well-defined dimensions of
topographic features and their lateral dissemination drive the progress in interpretation of …