Triboelectric properties of materials play an essential role in liquid energy harvesting and
emerging application. The triboelectric properties of materials can be controlled by chemical …

Droplet impact behaviours are widely applied in a variety of domains including self-cleaning,
painting and coating, corrosion of turbine blades and aircraft, separation and oil repellency …

Droplet impact is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, daily life, and industrial processes. It
is thus crucial to tune the impact outcomes for various applications. As a special outcome of …

In order to understand the effect of porous structures on boiling heat transfer, this review
investigates and evaluates the preparation methods, critical heat fluxes and heat transfer …

Water collection by dew condensation emerges as a sustainable solution to water scarcity.
However, the transient condensation process that involves droplet nucleation, growth, and …

Inhibiting the Leidenfrost effect has drawn extensive attention due to its detrimental impact
on heat dissipation in high-temperature industrial applications. Although hierarchical …

Wettability, as a fundamental property of interface materials, is becoming increasingly
prominent in frontier research areas, such as water harvesting, microfluidics, biomedicine …

In the past few decades, the droplet impact on a heated plate above the Leidenfrost
temperature has attracted immense research interest. The strong hydrophobicity caused by …

Development of highly hydrophobic surfaces having excellent self-cleaning abilities has
found diverse applications in the recent years in several fields like architecture, textiles …

Textured surface has shown great potential in inhibiting Leidenfrost phenomenon for the
thermal management of high heat flux devices. Although diverse textured surfaces have …