Spider silk is a natural polymeric fiber with high tensile strength, toughness, and has distinct
thermal, optical, and biocompatible properties. The mechanical properties of spider silk are …

Membrane separation technology has significant advantages for treating oil-in-water
emulsions. Understanding the evolution of oil droplets could reveal the interfacial and …

Freshwater scarcity crisis threatens human life and economic security. Collecting water from
the fog seems to be an effective method to defuse this crisis. Nonetheless, the existing fog …

Droplet manipulation techniques such as transport and merging have been widely used in
many fields including biology, chemistry, material and energy applications. Moreover …

The wettability of solid surfaces is a renewed old topic that has impacted most fields of
science and technology for a long time, from cave painting in the ancient to microfluidic …

Janus membranes are an emerging class of materials having opposing properties at an
interface. This structure results in selective and often novel transport characteristics. In this …

Nowadays, the pollution of water has become worse in many parts of the world, which
causes a severe shortage of clean water and attracts widespread attention worldwide …

Engineered wettability is a traditional, yet key issue in surface science and attracts
tremendous interest in solving large‐scale practical problems. Recently, different super …

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one of the most widely used nanomaterials in our daily life. In
1972, Fujishima and Honda reported the photo electrolysis of water into H2 and O2 utilizing …

Surfaces with star-shaped wettability patterns can be fabricated following the procedures in
Figure 1. At first, a superhydrophilic surface can be fabricated by depositing TiO 2 slurry onto …