Nature is a school for scientists and engineers. After four and a half billion years of stringent
evolution, some creatures in nature exhibit fascinating surface wettability. Biomimetics …

The surface wettability control of solid materials has been considered as an essential aspect
of surface chemistry. In the past decade, superhydrophobic surfaces have revealed a …

Controlling the interfacial chemical and physical properties, and thus modulating the
behaviours of cells and biomolecules on material surfaces, form an important foundation for …

We present a comprehensive study of water drops sliding down chemically heterogeneous
surfaces formed by a periodic pattern of alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic stripes …

In recent decades, the development of biomimetic superhydrophobic surface structures has
allowed several properties of superhydrophobic materials to be increasingly developed …

Controlling the motion of liquid drops in contact with a solid surface has broad technological
implications in many different areas ranging from textiles to microfluidics and heat …

The equilibrium shape of droplets on surfaces, functionalized with stripes of alternating
wettability, have been investigated using simulations employing a finite element method …

We report results of a comprehensive study of the wetting properties of sessile drops of
ferrofluid water solutions at various concentrations deposited on flat substrates and …

We perform a joint numerical and experimental study to systematically characterize the
motion of 30 μ l drops of pure water and of ethanol in water solutions, sliding over a periodic …

Artificial surfaces that exhibit unidirectional water spreading and superhydrophobicity are
obtained by Strelitzia reginae leaves. Both green and dried leaves are used, thus exploiting …