Contact angle hysteresis is an important physical phenomenon. It is omnipresent in nature
and also plays a crucial role in various industrial processes. Despite its relevance, there is a …

Spontaneous directional transportation of droplets on solid surfaces driven by structure
gradients has attracted much attention due to its large-scale applications, such as heat …

Fog harvesting is a useful technique for obtaining fresh water in arid climates. The wire
meshes currently utilized for fog harvesting suffer from dual constraints: coarse meshes …

As an efficient method to convert the potential water to the available water, fog collection [1–
3] has been attracting more and more attention with the emergence of the worldwide water …

Many membraneless organelles are liquid-like domains that form inside the active,
viscoelastic environment of living cells through phase separation. To investigate the …

The Namib grass Stipagrostis sabulicola relies, to a large degree, upon fog for its water
supply and is able to guide collected water towards the plant base. This directed irrigation of …

Spider silk has been an attractive biopolymer since ancient times. Learning from both its
excellent properties and spinning process, silk provides people with inspiration to develop …

Adsorption and adhesiveness of single kapok to various oils, such as diesel, vegetable oil,
used motor oil and motor oil were quantitatively evaluated by size and adhesive energy …

A cactus spine with a grooved cone structure provides an ideal model for designs capable of
transporting liquids directionally. Inspired by the cactus spine, a lot of artificial liquid …

Drop–fiber interactions are fundamental to the operation of technologies such as
atmospheric fog capture, oil filtration, refrigeration, and dehumidification. We demonstrate …