Among superhydrophobic materials, non-wettable textiles are probably the ones that come
in contact or interact with the human body most frequently. Hence, textile treatments for …

Effective manipulation of liquids on open surfaces without external energy input is
indispensable for the advancement of point-of-care diagnostic devices. Open-surface …

Milk adulteration is a common problem in developing countries, and it can lead to fatal
diseases in humans. Despite several studies to identify different adulterants in milk samples …

We present a high resolution, ultra-frugal printing of paper microfluidic devices using in-
house paraffin formulation on a simple filter paper. The patterns printed using an office inkjet …

In this decade, paper-based microfluidics has gained more interest in the research due to
the vast applications in medical diagnosis, environmental monitoring, food safety analysis …

Materials with contrary wettability have various functions and applications. Common
methods such as chemical modification and secondary treatment with solid mask to achieve …

Surfaces with extreme wettability (too low, superhydrophobic; too high, superhydrophilic)
have attracted considerable attention over the past two decades. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) …

Liquid spreading on open surfaces is a widely observed phenomenon. The physics of liquid
spreading has become more complex when the surface is porous like paper or fabrics due …

Over the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the use of paper-based
microfluidic devices in various fields, including environmental monitoring, food safety …

This paper presents an experimental study on thermal transport to single water droplets
evaporating on heated biphobic surfaces consisting of a superhydrophobic matrix with a …