Abstract Micro‐/nanorobots (m‐bots) have attracted significant interest due to their suitability
for applications in biomedical engineering and environmental remediation. Particularly, their …

Natural creatures use their surface structures to control directional liquid dynamics for
survival. Learning from nature, artificial superwetting materials have triggered technological …

The directed, long-range and self-propelled transport of droplets on solid surfaces is crucial
for many applications from water harvesting to bio-analysis,,,,,,,–. Typically, preferential …

Various physical tweezers for manipulating liquid droplets based on optical, electrical,
magnetic, acoustic, or other external fields have emerged and revolutionized research and …

Due to their small sizes, microrobots are advantageous for accessing hard-to-reach spaces
for delivery and measurement. However, their small sizes also bring challenges in on-board …

Ferrofluids, also known as ferromagnetic particle suspensions, are materials with an
excellent magnetic response, which have attracted increasing interest in both industrial …

Fabrication of artificial biomimetic materials has attracted abundant attention. As one of the
subcategories of biomimetic materials, artificial cells are highly significant for multiple …

Understanding of magnetic field (MF) effects observed during and after its action on water
and aqueous solutions is still a controversial issue although the effects have been reported …

A photoresponsive organogel surface (POS), which integrates characteristics of the
photothermal property of Fe3O4 nanoparticles and the low hysteresis feature of lubricant …

A kind of superhydrophobic magnetic nano/micropillar array (MNA) with optimized intrinsic
dynamic wetting property has characteristics of magnetically induced dynamic tilt‐angle …