In the effort toward sustainable advanced functional materials, nanocelluloses have
attracted extensive recent attention. Nanocelluloses range from rod‐like highly crystalline …

Chemistry and topography are the two distinct available tools for customizing different bio-
inspired liquid wettability including superhydrophobicity, superamphiphobicity, underwater …

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

Recent progress in surface-initiated polymerization enables the deliberate polymer
modification of nanoscopic surfaces with high levels of precision. This has given rise to the …

Inspired by the water-collecting mechanism of the Stenocara beetle's back structure, we
prepared a superhydrophilic bumps–superhydrophobic/superoleophilic stainless steel mesh …

Bioinspired surfaces with special wettability and adhesion have attracted great interest in
both fundamental research and industry applications. Various kinds of special wetting …

High‐throughput screening of live cells and chemical reactions in isolated droplets is an
important and growing method in areas ranging from studies of gene functions and the …

A novel Janus sponge with the ability to remove complex contaminants from water is
reported. Firstly, a superhydrophilic sponge (PA@ PEI-sponge) is prepared via synthesizing …

Although numerous methods have been applied to obtain superhydrophobic substrates, it is
still a challenge to develop a universal method for converting arbitrary materials to water …

Communities of epithelial cells communicate through intercellular interactions, allowing
them to coordinate their motility, which plays a key role in homeostasis, morphogenesis and …