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View article: Bioinspired Spider Silk Fiber of MOF‐Based Zwitterionic Hydrogel for Low‐Humidity Atmospheric Water Harvesting
Bioinspired Spider Silk Fiber of MOF‐Based Zwitterionic Hydrogel for Low‐Humidity Atmospheric Water Harvesting Open
A bioinspired spider silk fiber (i.e., PCLC) is presented by introducing the zwitterionic hydrogel poly‐[2‐(methacryloyloxy)ethyl] dimethyl‐(3‐sulfopropyl)ammonium hydroxide (PDMAPS) and CAU‐10‐H used as carriers of hygroscopic salt Lithiu…
View article: Excellent Superhydrophobic Cone-Array Surfaces with Low Contact Time of Droplet Pancake Bouncing Under Various Conditions
Excellent Superhydrophobic Cone-Array Surfaces with Low Contact Time of Droplet Pancake Bouncing Under Various Conditions Open
Superhydrophobic surfaces with a low liquid–solid contact time have huge application prospects in anti-icing, corrosion-resistant, self-cleaning, etc. Significant attempts have been devoted to reducing the contact time through altering the…
View article: Controlled Surface Wetting
Controlled Surface Wetting Open
View article: Back Cover, Volume 3, Number 4, October 2024
Back Cover, Volume 3, Number 4, October 2024 Open
View article: Longstanding outdoor anti-/deicing performance of photothermal mosquito-eye-like micro-nanostructure arrays
Longstanding outdoor anti-/deicing performance of photothermal mosquito-eye-like micro-nanostructure arrays Open
Photothermal icephobic surfaces, poised to revolutionize the anti-icing technology landscape, face significant hurdles in stability, photothermal efficiency, and cost-effectiveness that impede their transition to practical applications1-6.…
View article: Programmable curvilinear self‐propelling of droplets without preset channels
Programmable curvilinear self‐propelling of droplets without preset channels Open
Curvilinear self‐propelling of droplets has attracted great interest in the past few decades due to their irreplaceable roles in many areas. Conventional understanding is that a droplet moves only along a preset channel formed by morpholog…
View article: Bioinspired Robust Helical‐Groove Spindle‐Knot Microfibers for Large‐Scale Water Collection (Adv. Funct. Mater. 48/2023)
Bioinspired Robust Helical‐Groove Spindle‐Knot Microfibers for Large‐Scale Water Collection (Adv. Funct. Mater. 48/2023) Open
Spindle-Knot Microfibers In article number 2305244, Yongmei Zheng and co-workers present a bioinspired helical-groove modified spindle-knot (HSK) microfiber that exhibits greater performances of wetting speed, droplet growth rate, and hang…
View article: Highly Efficient Photothermal Icephobic/de‐Icing MOF‐Based Micro and Nanostructured Surface
Highly Efficient Photothermal Icephobic/de‐Icing MOF‐Based Micro and Nanostructured Surface Open
Photothermal materials have gained considerable attention in the field of anti‐/de‐icing due to its environmental friendliness and energy saving. However, it is always significantly challenging to obtain solar thermal materials with hierar…
View article: Integrative Bioinspired Surface with Annular Pattern and Three Dimension Wettable Gradient for Enhancement of Fog Collection
Integrative Bioinspired Surface with Annular Pattern and Three Dimension Wettable Gradient for Enhancement of Fog Collection Open
A novel integrative bioinspired surface with annular pattern and 3D wettable gradient (APWG) is proposed for fog collection via a simple needle‐face anodic oxidation strategy. The fog collection behaviors are studied on APWG with different…
View article: Design of flexible multi‐level topography for enhancing mechanical property
Design of flexible multi‐level topography for enhancing mechanical property Open
Robust mechanical property is fundamentally significant for applications of nano‐materials, such as micro‐fluidic, sensor, superhydrophobic/ icephobic, and crush‐resistant functions. However, the nano‐materials used in the applications are…
View article: Fluidity and phase transitions of water in hydrophobic and hydrophilic nanotubes
Fluidity and phase transitions of water in hydrophobic and hydrophilic nanotubes Open
We put water flow under scrutiny to report radial distributions of water viscosity within hydrophobic and hydrophilic nanotubes as functions of the water-nanotube interactions ( $${{\epsilon }}_{sf}$$ ), surface wettability ( θ ), and nan…
View article: Tilt‐Angle Pillar Arrays: Directional Droplet Spreading Transport Controlled on Tilt‐Angle Pillar Arrays (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 22/2018)
Tilt‐Angle Pillar Arrays: Directional Droplet Spreading Transport Controlled on Tilt‐Angle Pillar Arrays (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 22/2018) Open
The tilt-angle pillar array, similar to that of butterfly wing, effectively achieves the controlling of droplets in uni-directional spreading along the tilt-angle regulated direction from pillar to pillar as reported by Yucai Lin, Yongmei …
View article: Coatings: Multilevel Nanoparticles Coatings with Excellent Liquid Repellency (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 19/2018)
Coatings: Multilevel Nanoparticles Coatings with Excellent Liquid Repellency (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 19/2018) Open
The excellent liquid repellency surfaces are achieved by using dual-scale hydrophobic silica coating (d-HSC) which nanoparticles in xylene-based suspension without any further modification. The study is greatly significant for design of ro…
View article: Bioinspired multi-gradient micro- and nano-structures to control transports of micro-droplets
Bioinspired multi-gradient micro- and nano-structures to control transports of micro-droplets Open
Biological surfaces provide endless inspiration for design and fabrication of smart materials. It has recently been revealed to have become a hot research area in the materials science world[1].The capture silk of the cribellate spider Ulo…
View article: Bioinspired Wettability-Controlled Surfaces with Gradient Micro- and Nanostructures
Bioinspired Wettability-Controlled Surfaces with Gradient Micro- and Nanostructures Open
View article: Controlled droplet transport to target on a high adhesion surface with multi-gradients
Controlled droplet transport to target on a high adhesion surface with multi-gradients Open
We introduce multi-gradients including Laplace pressure gradient, wettable gradient and wettable different gradient on a high adhesion surface via special wedge-pattern and improved anodic oxidation method. As a result of the cooperative e…
View article: Robust superhydrophobic coatings with micro- and nano-composite morphology
Robust superhydrophobic coatings with micro- and nano-composite morphology Open
Robust superhydrophobic coating (SC) surface with micro- and nano-composite morphology for repellency of various liquids.
View article: Controlled transportation of droplets and higher fog collection efficiency on a multi-scale and multi-gradient copper wire
Controlled transportation of droplets and higher fog collection efficiency on a multi-scale and multi-gradient copper wire Open
Via a one-step gradient anodic oxidation, copper wire with a multi-scale structure and a multi-gradient was fabricated and controlled self-propelling of droplet was achieved.
View article: One-step fabricated wettable gradient surface for controlled directional underwater oil-droplet transport
One-step fabricated wettable gradient surface for controlled directional underwater oil-droplet transport Open
Controlled self-propelling of the underwater oil droplet is achieved by a one-step anodic oxidation method.
View article: Directional bouncing of droplets on oblique two-tier conical structures
Directional bouncing of droplets on oblique two-tier conical structures Open
The directional bouncing of droplets occurs on oblique two-tier conical structures, and the horizontal displacement is related to the oblique angle.
View article: Bioinspired gradient surfaces with controlling of water collection/repellency
Bioinspired gradient surfaces with controlling of water collection/repellency Open
View article: Orientation-Induced Effects of Water Harvesting on Humps-on-Strings of Bioinspired Fibers
Orientation-Induced Effects of Water Harvesting on Humps-on-Strings of Bioinspired Fibers Open
Smart water-collecting functions are naturally endowed on biological surfaces with unique wettable microstructures, e.g., beetle back with “alternate hydrophobic, hydrophilic micro-regions” and spider silk with wet-rebuilt “spindle-knot, j…
View article: Bioinspired Structure Materials to Control Water-collecting Properties
Bioinspired Structure Materials to Control Water-collecting Properties Open
Natural evolution endows biological surfaces with unique wettability. The capture silk of a cribellate spider can collect tiny droplets directionally through a cooperation of curvature- and wettable gradients in periodic spindle-knot struc…
View article: Effective directional self-gathering of drops on spine of cactus with splayed capillary arrays
Effective directional self-gathering of drops on spine of cactus with splayed capillary arrays Open
View article: Wet-Induced Fabrication of Heterogeneous Hump-on-String Fibers
Wet-Induced Fabrication of Heterogeneous Hump-on-String Fibers Open
Inspired by the high adhesiveness of the electrospun fiber, we propose a method to fabricate multi-scale heterogeneous hump-on-string fiber via the adsorption of nanoparticles, the NPCTi which is the hydrolysate of titanium tetrachloride (…
View article: Dynamic Magnetic Responsive Wall Array with Droplet Shedding-off Properties
Dynamic Magnetic Responsive Wall Array with Droplet Shedding-off Properties Open
View article: Radial Wettable Gradient of Hot Surface to Control Droplets Movement in Directions
Radial Wettable Gradient of Hot Surface to Control Droplets Movement in Directions Open