Composite materials can provide remarkable improvements over the individual constituents.
Especially, with a liquid component introduced into a solid porous host, solid–liquid host …

Microfluidics and bioinspired superwetting materials, as two crucial branches of scientific
research, are entering their golden age of development. As an emerging interdisciplinary …

Manipulating oil droplets in an aqueous solution offers great opportunities to develop
advanced devices in the fields of water remediation, chemical micro‐reactor, etc. Although …

A coating of implanted medical devices with antifouling ability, preferable mechanical
property and stability in the physiological environment proves beneficial for their clinical use …

Surface and interface engineering provides a powerful tool to tailor the structures and
properties of polymer membranes, sharpening their applications in sustainable …

Liquid gating membranes have been demonstrated to show unprecedented properties of
dynamicity, stability, adaptivity, and stimulus‐responsiveness. Most recently, smart liquid …

Structural materials are used to provide stable mechanical architectures and transmit or
support forces, and they play an important role in materials science and technology. During …

Conspectus Porous membranes are playing paramount roles in the areas of wastewater
treatment, chemical analysis, energy storage and conversion, flexible devices, and …

Constructing multifunctional surfaces is one of the practical approaches to address catheter‐
related multiple complications but is generally time‐consuming and substrate‐dependent …

Safe and precise control of gas flow is one of the key factors to many physical and chemical
processes, such as degassing, natural gas transportation, and gas sensor. In practical …