Surface roughening has long been used to confer materials remarkable wetting properties,
such as super hydrophobicity. When roughness belongs to the microscale, existing models …

Atmospheric aerosols are suspended particulate matter of varying composition, size, and
mixing state. Challenges remain in understanding the impact of aerosols on the climate …

Designing efficient electrocatalysts with high electroconductivity, strong chemisorption, and
superior catalytical efficiency to realize rapid kinetics of the lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) …

Emulsions stabilised by solid particles with homogeneous surfaces are thought to be
kinetically rather than thermodynamically stable. In the absence of effects due to negative …

Using atomic force microscopy with nonconventional carbon tips, the pinning of a liquid
contact line on individual nanometric defects was studied. This mechanism is responsible for …

Surface tension is a physical property that is central to our understanding of wetting
phenomena. One could easily measure liquid surface tension using commercially available …

A series of free-standing electrodes consisting of hydroxides (Ni (OH) 2, Co (OH), NiFeLDH,
and CoFeLDH) and oxides (NiO, Co3O4, NiFe2O4, and CoFe2O4) supported by carbon …

The biomaterials surface, which may only be a few atomic layers thick, constitutes the
important interface between the biomaterials and the external biological environment and …

Surface tension, an important property of liquids, is easily measured for bulk samples.
However, for droplets smaller than one micron in size, there are currently no reported …

Electrospinning using positive and negative polarity applied voltages is used to produce
polyamide nanofibers with tailored surface functionality. The surface free energy of the …